Seeing the Universe

Beyond visible light is ultraviolet... remember the sun block?

The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Mission

 

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)

Then, at shorter wavelengths and-see the pattern-higher energies, x-rays... produced at temperatures of 10 million degrees or so.

 

And then at even higher energies, and even shorter wavelength-gamma rays... created at temperatures of billions of degrees!

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Team

 

So now you get the picture... longer wavelengths, lower energies, cooler temperatures...

Shorter wavelengths, higher energies, higher temperatures...

 

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