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x-ray telescope [′eks ‚rā ′tel·ə‚skōp] (engineering) An instrument designed to detect x-rays emanating from a source outside the earth's atmosphere and to resolve the x-rays into an image; they are carried to high altitudes by balloons, rockets, or space vehicles; although several types of x-ray detector, involving gas counters, scintillation counters, and collimators, have been used, only one, making use of the phenomenon of total external reflection of x-rays from a surface at grazing incidence, is strictly an x-ray telescope. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The new clocking of spin comes from several hundred hours of observations from a recently launched Japanese X-ray telescope called Suzaku. Hinode also carries an X-ray telescope that detects hot gases in the sun's corona. Try NASA's new Chandra (KAHN-drah) X-ray telescope. |
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