X-Ray Astronomy - ROSAT Calendar 2001

XMM-Newton viewed the X-ray sky for the first time on January 19^th, 2000. The observation was made with the high-sensitivity pn-CCD X-ray color camera developed at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. With this camera, it is possible to map objects with temperatures of millions of degrees. The target was the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a companion galaxy to our own Milky Way. The image shows a section of about the size of the full moon. Lots of point sources, until now unknown, can be seen in the extended explosion clouds. From the area where the bright supernova SN 1987A lighted up in 1987, X-ray emission is now reaching us from the hot explosion cloud. The X-ray colors in this image are represented in such a way that with increasing energy of the X-rays, the color changes from red to blue. The data taken with XMM-Newton cover even more color (or spectral) information than can be rendered from the image. Detailed X-ray spectra play an important role in the investigation of the observed objects.

ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 2001
Images from the X-ray sky taken with ROSAT, XMM-Newton, and Chandra · The 11^th ROSAT Calendar since 1991
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X-ray images: SASS/EXSAS software MPE, ESO-MIDAS. The ROSAT, Chandra, and XMM-Newton project is supported by the Max Planck Society and the German Aerospace Center DLR on behalf of the German Federal Department of Education and Research (BMBF).

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X-Ray Astronomy Wave ROSAT The X-ray Satellite ROSAT Highlights Gallery Rosat Images ROSAT Calendar Images 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Five Years of Rosat Publications Workshops Calibration Timeline Processing News ROSAT Results Archive Catalogues ROSAT Link & Surf XMM-Newton Chandra Other Projects Data Center Exsas Search Impressum Contact	XMM-Newton's First Light - Large Magellanic Cloud XMM-Newton viewed the X-ray sky for the first time on January 19^th, 2000. The observation was made with the high-sensitivity pn-CCD X-ray color camera developed at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. With this camera, it is possible to map objects with temperatures of millions of degrees. The target was the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a companion galaxy to our own Milky Way. The image shows a section of about the size of the full moon. Lots of point sources, until now unknown, can be seen in the extended explosion clouds. From the area where the bright supernova SN 1987A lighted up in 1987, X-ray emission is now reaching us from the hot explosion cloud. The X-ray colors in this image are represented in such a way that with increasing energy of the X-rays, the color changes from red to blue. The data taken with XMM-Newton cover even more color (or spectral) information than can be rendered from the image. Detailed X-ray spectra play an important role in the investigation of the observed objects. gzipped PostScript version ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 2001 Images from the X-ray sky taken with ROSAT, XMM-Newton, and Chandra · The 11^th ROSAT Calendar since 1991 All rights reserved © Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, 85741 Garching, Germany. X-ray images: SASS/EXSAS software MPE, ESO-MIDAS. The ROSAT, Chandra, and XMM-Newton project is supported by the Max Planck Society and the German Aerospace Center DLR on behalf of the German Federal Department of Education and Research (BMBF). © X-Ray Group at MPE (group) last update:, editor of this page:
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XMM-Newton's First Light - Large Magellanic Cloud