An extraordinary view of the universe: the use of X-ray vision in space science

• Autores: Aneta Siemiginowska
• Localización: Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, ISSN 2174-3487, ISSN-e 2174-9221, Nº. 7, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Unravelling science), págs. 162-171
• Idioma: inglés
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  • X-ray emission from cosmic sources indicates that these sources are heated to temperatures exceeding a million degrees or that they contain highly energetic particles. Recent X-ray telescopes, such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton, observed thousands of cosmic X-ray sources. These observations greatly impacted our understanding of the physics governing the evolution of structures across the universe. Here, I review and highlight some of these important results.