The Invisible Sky : Rosat and the Age of X-Ray Astronomy /

The x-ray satellite ROSAT, launched in 1990, has made a new universe visible. It has discovered over 120,000 x-ray sources and allowed us for the first time to look in new ways at stellar explosions, galactic collisions, extremely compact pulsars, black holes, and quasars that shine 10,000 times mor...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Aschenbach, B.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Hahn, Hermann-Michael, Trümper, Joachim
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 1998.
Subjects:	ROSAT (Artificial satellite) X-ray astronomy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book