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    Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) also known as Insight (Chinese: 慧眼) is a Chinese X-ray space observatory, launched on June 15, 2017 to observe...
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    An X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere...
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    This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...
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    detect X-rays must be taken to high altitude by balloons, sounding rockets, and satellites. X-ray astronomy uses a type of space telescope that can see x-ray...
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    X-ray telescopes that may soon be able to verify the result conclusively such as China's Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) and NASA's Imaging X-ray...
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    Cosmic-Ray Observatory at Yangbajing in Tibet, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, the China Spallation Neutron Source, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope...
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  • X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, and X-ray...
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    launch of the world's largest Solar Space Telescope in 2008, and Project 973 Space Hard X-Ray Modulation Telescope (硬X射线调制望远镜) by 2010. Chinese Deep Space Network...
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  • produces flashlights for mounting on weapons Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope or Insight, a Chinese X-ray space observatory Insight (public organization)...
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    Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) High Energy cosmic Radiation Detector facility (HERD)...
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  • (such as ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays) and are thus impossible to observe using ground-based telescopes. Being above the atmosphere, these...
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    exhibits quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), has a modulation of 62 days in its X-ray amplitude. M82 X-2: An unusual ULX that was discovered in 2014 to...
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    Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (category X-ray telescopes)
    X-rays, in orbit since 1999 List of X-ray space telescopes Scientific research on the International Space Station NuSTAR, NASA Explorer-class hard X-ray...
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    transmission of solar flare X-ray and gamma ray emissions through to the detectors as the spacecraft spins around the axis of the telescope tube. The modulated...
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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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    High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (category X-ray telescopes)
    HEAO-1 was an X-ray telescope launched in 1977. HEAO-1 surveyed the sky in the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (0.2 keV – 10 MeV), providing...
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    energy of hard X-rays and γ-rays is too high to be reflected or refracted, and simply passes through the lenses and mirrors of optical telescopes. Image...
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    Granat (category X-ray telescopes)
    reentered the Earth's atmosphere on May 25, 1999. The hard X-ray and low-energy gamma-ray SIGMA telescope was a collaboration between CESR (Toulouse) and CEA...
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    cosmic X-rays. It was launched on 1 January 2024 on a PSLV rocket, and it has an expected operational lifespan of at least five years. The telescope was developed...
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    some types of nebulae. However, X-ray telescopes must be placed outside the Earth's atmosphere to see astronomical X-rays, since the great depth of the atmosphere...
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    X-ray sources are astronomical objects with physical properties which result in the emission of X-rays. Several types of astrophysical objects emit X-rays...
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  • from which the burst had originated, it detected a fading X-ray emission. Ground-based telescopes later identified a fading optical counterpart as well....
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    Jager, O C de; Goldwurm, A; Melia, F (December 1, 2006). "Periodic Modulations in an X-ray Flare from Sagittarius A*". Journal of Physics: Conference Series...
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    incorrect estimation of the telescope's sensitivity. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is searching for similar gamma rays. In 2009, an as yet unexplained...
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    European Retrievable Carrier (category Space telescopes)
    Occultation Radiometer Instrument (ORI) (Belgium) Wide Angle Telescope for Cosmic Hard X-rays (WATCH) (Denmark) Timeband Capture Cell Experiment (TICCE)...
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  • highenergy astrophysics, and led Insight-HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope), China's first X-ray astronomical satellite. JPL · 96612 96623 Leani...
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  • HEAO Program (category Space telescopes)
    and spectral resolution. The A3, or Modulation Collimator (MC) instrument, provided high-precision positions of X-ray sources, accurate enough to permit...
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  • annihilation signal, include the Fermi-LAT gamma ray telescope and the VERITAS ground-based gamma ray observatory. Although the annihilation of WIMPs into...
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    6 meter telescope in La Silla Observatory, Chile, the HIRES spectrometer at the Keck telescopes or EXPRES at the Lowell Discovery Telescope. An especially...
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    56Fe. Later measurements by space gamma-ray telescopes of the small fraction of the 56Co and 57Co gamma rays that escaped the SN 1987A remnant without...
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