• Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) are full-disc X-ray instruments observing the Sun aboard GOES satellites. The SXI on GOES 12 was the first of its kind and allows...
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    GOES 14 spacecraft carries on board a Solar X-ray Imager to monitor the Sun's X-rays for the early detection of solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and...
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    High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI, originally High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager or HESSI or Explorer 81) was a NASA solar flare observatory...
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    categories: imaging detectors (such as photographic plates and X-ray film (photographic film), now mostly replaced by various digitizing devices like image plates...
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    back down to the lower atmosphere. The extreme ultraviolet and X-ray radiation from solar flares is absorbed by the daylight side of Earth's upper atmosphere...
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    of solar X-rays was confirmed early in the mid-twentieth century by V-2s converted to sounding rockets, and the detection of extra-terrestrial X-rays has...
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    GOES Solar X-ray Imager instrument onboard previous GOES satellite generations. The goals of SUVI are to locate coronal holes, detect and locate solar flares...
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    activation, GOES-12 was used instead in order to test its Solar X-ray Imager. The Solar X-ray Imager failed in April 2013 Wikinews has related news: GOES-12...
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    X-ray portion of the solar spectrum and was useful for both research and space weather prediction. Data from Yohkoh inspired the Solar X-ray Imager on...
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    An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of...
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    take readings of atmospheric temperature and moisture, a solar x-ray imager to detect solar flares, and instruments to monitor the magnetosphere, cosmic...
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    Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS, EDX, EDXS or XEDS), sometimes called energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDXA or EDAX) or energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis...
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    Sun (redirect from Solar X-ray astronomy)
    with the solar wind. In 1980, the Solar Maximum Mission probes were launched by NASA. This spacecraft was designed to observe gamma rays, X-rays and ultraviolet...
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    Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA) (also known as EP-WXT-pathfinder) is a wide-field X-ray imaging space telescope built by Chinese Academy of Sciences...
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    soft X-ray imager: 1. Magnetospheric masking 15 Dec - Finding magnetopause standoff distance using a Soft X-ray Imager: 2. Methods to analyze 2-D X-ray images...
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    Lobster-eye optics (category X-ray instrumentation)
    of Sciences built and launched the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), a wide-field X-ray imaging space telescope. It is a technology demonstrator...
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    variable stars and super soft X-ray sources), neutron star or black hole (X-ray binaries). Some Solar System bodies emit X-rays, the most notable being the...
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  • X-ray specs or X-ray glasses are an American novelty item, purported to allow users to see through or into solid objects. In reality, the spectacles merely...
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    Sensor, and a Solar and Galactic Proton Sensor Solar Imaging Suite, which includes the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), the Solar X-Ray Sensor (XRS),...
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    Ultraviolet Imager (Belgium): Images the solar atmospheric layers above the photosphere, thereby providing an indispensable link between the solar surface...
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    (1976 - present) (SWPC) Archive of the most severe solar storms (Solarstorms.org) GOES X-ray Solar Imager Greatest Hits Riley, Pete; J. J. Love (2017). "Extreme...
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    Yohkoh (redirect from SOLAR-A)
    band optical filter (4290 Å–4320 Å). The Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) was a Fourier-synthesis X-ray imager with 64 bigrid collimators sparsely sampling the...
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    arcsec x 170 arcsec at a cadence of 8s (for flares) to 20-60s (active regions and quiet Sun). The Context Imager (CI): a high-resolution EUV imager that...
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    Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole...
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  • NIXT (category X-ray telescopes)
    NIXT, was the TXI (Tunable XUV Imager) sounding rocket program List of X-ray space telescopes Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment Herant...
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    The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM, pronounced 'crism' or 'krizz-em', as if the X was a chi), is an X-ray space telescope. It is a mission...
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    instrumentation able to detect solar ultraviolet radiation occurred in 1946. X-ray solar studies began in 1949. By 1973 a solar instrument package orbited...
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    astronomical events like solar flares. It consists of the shortest wavelength electromagnetic waves, typically shorter than those of X-rays. With frequencies...
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    Apollo Telescope Mount (category X-ray telescopes)
    crewed solar observatory that was a part of Skylab, the first American space station. It could observe the Sun in wavelengths ranging from soft X-rays, ultraviolet...
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  • extreme-ultraviolet imager instruments on NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations (STEREO) spacecraft 2006, 2009, 2010 – The Solar X-ray Imagers SXI on GOES-N...
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