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Invisible Sky: Rosat And The Age Of X-Ray Astronomy
Author: Aschenbach, Bernd; Joint Author: Hahn, Hermann-Michael
Hardback; Book; 150 Colour & 50 B&w Illustrations 175 pages Published: February 1998 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN: 0387949283
The story of the most famous of X-ray observatories, X-ray satellite ROSAT, launched in 1990 which made a new universe visible. The first popular book devoted to X-ray astronomy. Contains 200 illustrations.The X-ray satellite ROSAT, launched in 1990, made a new universe visible. Two of the scientists who were instrumental in the design and launching of the satellite join a science journalist to chronicle the beginnings, early failures, planning, construction and deployment of this X-ray observatory.

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