watch One-Minute World News

News Front Page
Africa
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Middle East
South Asia
UK
Business
Health
Science & Environment
Technology
Entertainment
Also in the news
-----------------
Video and Audio
-----------------
Programmes
Have Your Say
In Pictures
Country Profiles
Special Reports

Related BBC sites

Audio slideshow: Deep space X-rays

The biggest scientific satellite ever built in Europe, the XMM-Newton observatory has been orbiting Earth for a decade - with its mirrors capturing X-ray images from across the Universe.

See what the telescope has seen in its first 10 years - with X-ray astronomer, Dr Kathy Romer - and her University of Sussex colleague, Dr Darren Baskill, who has helped to calibrate the delicate machinery.

Music courtesy KPM Music.
Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 10 December 2009.

Links

XMM-Newton at the European Space Agency
XMM-Newton at the University of Leicester
Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sussex
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

More audio slideshows

Chandra's first decade
Explorers of the Universe
Man on the Moon




FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Horses sculpture in memory of Genghis Khan, Ordos, Inner Mongolia Ghost town
Has China's housing bubble burst?
Afo - the world's oldest clove tree The guerilla plant
How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire
Sergei Polunin Walking away
Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit

Skip to top

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific