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X-Ray Astronomy - ROSAT Calendar 1995
Deutsche Version MPE HEG X-Ray Astronomy Wave ROSAT Gallery ROSAT Calendar Images 1995
X-ray Sources in the Vicinity of the Constellation Orion
This computer image shows the point-like X-ray sources of the ROSAT Survey in a clipping of about 50 × 75 square degrees in the vicinity of the constellation Orion. The colours produce an overview of the X-ray spectra taken with the PSPC, whereby the colour changes from yellow to white to blue with increasing hardness of the radiation, akin to the visible-light colour change of stars from yellow to blue with increasing temperature. The ROSAT sky is characterized by its great variety of objects located at very different distances: from the nearby Moon (small sickle in the upper part of the image) and sun-like stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars and supernova remnants in our Milky Way and nearby galaxies out to clusters of galaxies and quasars at the edge of the Universe.
Gzipped PostScript versionROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 1995
Images from the X-ray sky with the ROSAT telescope · All rights reserved:
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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).
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