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The Milky Way in X-rays - ten years in ten minutes

Avi Blizovsky

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The new film shows the Milky Way in the X-ray spectrum. It sees exploding stars and flickering black holes over the course of a decade.
The film, found exclusively on the Space.com website, shows the sky in a way that optical telescopes cannot. Stars that appear stable in the visible light range behave completely differently in the X-ray emission range.
The data was compiled from observations made by the American satellite Rossi, launched in 1995. The film was created jointly by NASA and MIT University. It shows objects that seem to appear suddenly and then disappear, while the rest of the light sources appear constant.

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