Following the first
X-ray astronomy satellite Uhuru, launched in 1970, the HEAO-1 Observatory, launched in 1977, performed an all-sky X-ray survey.
KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The launch of Japan's
X-ray astronomy satellite ASTRO-E2 on the M-5-6 rocket was postponed from Wednesday to Friday or later due to bad weather, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
Although
X-ray astronomy will see a lot of action this year, it isn't the only game in town.
Chandra's Cosmos is an attractive volume with illustrations weighted toward the purple end of things, as you might expect from a book on
X-ray astronomy. Tucker decodes each image, sometimes using supplemental diagrams, to explain what we're seeing and show how astronomers are using the colorful data.
"Using her expert knowledge in the
X-ray astronomy field, Jasmina reanalysed our results to find that we had in fact detected the filaments in our data, where previously we believed we had not," she said.
His work on black holes and binary stars was critical in advancing the field of
X-ray astronomy.
In these proceedings from the conference of June 2005, contributors describe their work in high-energy astrophysics, particle acceleration,
x-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy and gamma-ray bursts.
Author Weaver, an adjunct professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, explains how
X-ray astronomy works and describes what its practitioners have discovered about the universe.
Naval Research Laboratory's continuing program of
X-ray astronomy....
Other astronomical milestones range from Tycho Brahe's accomplishments at the first observatory in Europe to the launch of
X-ray astronomy. Bartusiak's selections make a coherent and compelling history.