ESA Observatory Prepares

The European Space Agency is readying a new orbital X-ray observatory for operation that is designed to explore faint sources in the ``hidden universe''--gamma-ray bursts, black holes and pulsars--emitting only in X-ray wavelengths. The XMM--recently renamed XMM-Newton--stands nearly 11 meters (36...

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