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Satellite Observing Black Holes 4

dragoness.ai writes: "If you have ever wondered how we get all the info on the million light-years away black holes, neutron stars, pulsars...then you should find out more about the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and its mission."
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Satellite Observing Black Holes

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  • What about Chandra? (Score:3, Informative)

    by Man of E ( 531031 ) <i.have@no.email.com> on Friday November 09, 2001 @11:32AM (#2543777)
    RXTE is a pretty old satellite. From the page, I see it has given great results and continues to do so. That's pretty neat.
    Still, I recently read about another x-ray satellite out there that's newer and likely to be still more important for future x-ray imaging. Chandra observatory was launched by NASA not long ago. You can get more information at chandra.harvard.edu [harvard.edu].
    Feel free to check out both pages and see the differences between RXTE and Chandra.

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