Celebrating 17 years in orbit! Our operations team posted a space #Selfie from XMM-Newton, one of the most productive orbiting observatories ever flown! A great deal of recent knowledge on black holes and other exotic objects comes from this hugely successful European mission.
Launched on 10 December 1999, XMM-Newton is an X-ray observatory designed to investigate some of the most violent phenomena in the Universe. Sources that emit large amounts of X-rays include remnants of supernova explosions and the surroundings of black holes.Detecting this energetic radi…
