Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Deutsche Version MPE HEG X-Ray Astronomy Wave ROSAT Gallery ROSAT Calendar Images 1991
View of the X-Ray Sky after the First Half of the ROSAT Survey
View of the X-ray sky - in a galactic projection with the centre of our Milky Way in the middle - after the first half of the ROSAT survey, the first such survey performed using an imaging X-ray telescope. A wealth of new discovered bright sources emerge from the diffuse X-ray emission.
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ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 1991
Images from the X-ray sky with the ROSAT telescope · All rights reserved:
© Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1603, 85740 Garching, Germany.
The X-ray images are produced by the SASS/EXSAS software MPE, ESO-MIDAS.
The ROSAT project is managed by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany on behalf of the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF).
© X-Ray Group at MPE (group)
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