About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology, Radio telescope, Charge-coupled device, X-ray astronomy, Radio astronomy, Infrared astronomy, Astrophotography, Ultraviolet astronomy, Far-infrared astronomy, History of X-ray astronomy, Theoretical astronomy, Astronomical seeing, Spitzer Space Telescope, Airmass, X-ray astronomy satellites, Transient lunar phenomenon, IRrelevant Astronomy, X-ray astronomy detector, Adaptive optics, Thermographic camera, Lucky imaging, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Speckle imaging, Starlink Project, FITS, Orion-Eridanus Superbubble, Aperture synthesis, The World At Night, Arp 270, Astronomical Image Processing System, Laser guide star, Astronomical survey, List of telescope types, National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, Submillimetre astronomy, AIPS++, Active optics, Strehl ratio, Aperture masking interferometry, The Dish, Barn door tracker, Hydra A, Drizzle, Blink comparator, Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey, ADONIS: ADaptive Optics Near Infrared System, Discovery image, Association, Active surface, Reverberation mapping, Sodium layer, Superconducting camera, Visible-light astronomy, Speckle masking, Bispectral analysis, Lucy-Hook coaddition method, Dynameter, Isoplanetic patch. Excerpt: X-ray astronomy - a.new, #quickbar a.new/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:5: f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ X-ray astronomy X-rays start at 0.008 nm and extend across the electromagnetic spectrum to X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy which deals with the study of X-ray observation and detection from astronomical objects. X-radiation is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so instruments to detect X-rays must be ta...