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This photograph is of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 telescope being checked by engineers in the...
This photograph is of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 telescope being evaluated by engineers in the...
This is an x-ray image of the Crab Nebula taken with the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2/Einstein...
This x-ray photograph of the Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, taken with the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)...
This supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia was observed by Tycho Brahe in 1572. In this x-ray image from the...
Both of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) 2/Einstein Observatory imaging devices were used to observe the...
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission is set to launch Dec. 9 on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy...
Leon Van Speybroeck of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts was awarded the...
This artist's concept depicts the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 in orbit. The HEAO-2, the first imaging...
This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30...
Like the Crab Nebula, the Vela Supernova Remnant has a radio pulsar at its center. In this image taken by the High...
The dramatic change in x-ray emission from the Terzan 2 cluster is shown in this series of 2.5-minute exposures...
This photograph was taken during the assembly of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 at TRW, Inc., the...
The Delta II expendable launch vehicle with the ROSAT (Roentgen Satellite), cooperative space X-ray astronomy...
The bad boys of astronomy, black holes inspire well-deserved wariness and strange fascination. But what exactly are...
Managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center and built by TRW, the second High Energy Astronomy Observatory was...
This image is an x-ray view of Eta Carinae Nebula showing bright stars taken with the High Energy Astronomy...
This image is an observation of Quasar 3C 273 by the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2/Einstein...
In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space...
This photograph shows TRW technicians preparing the assembled Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) for an official...
This photograph shows a TRW technician inspecting the completely assembled Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) in the...
This image of the suspected Black Hole, Cygnus X-1, was the first object seen by the High Energy Astronomy...
This photograph shows the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-1 being assembled at TRW Systems of Redondo...
This illustration is a schematic of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 and its experiments. It shows the...