Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Deutsche Version MPE HEG X-Ray Astronomy Wave ROSAT Gallery ROSAT Calendar Images 1998
Artist's View of the AXAF Satellite
AXAF, with a length of 14 m and a 21 m span of the solar generators, is after the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory the third large observatory of the american space program. Its launch with the Space Shuttle is planned for August 1998. The angle resolution of 1/2 arcsecond is about ten times better than that of ROSAT and will allow observations in the X-ray range with hitherto unreached details. MPE was involved in the manufacturing of a grating spectrometer which will be used for high resolution spectroscopy of cosmic X-ray sources.
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ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 1990 - 2002
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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