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High‐energy astronomers take a look at x‐ray sky

JUL 01, 1979

DOI: 10.1063/1.2995613

The second orbiting High Energy Astronomy Observatory started its normal operations on 7 January. It has already produced more than a thousand x‐ray images, many of them spectacular pictures of supernova remnants, quasars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, stars and clusters of stars. It has also produced a number of puzzles, most notably for theories of pulsar formation.

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