Image: X-ray sources in XMM-Newton's second slew catalogue

Monday, May 15, 2017 - 06:32 in Astronomy & Space

This colourful, seemingly abstract artwork is actually a map of our Galaxy, depicting all the celestial objects that were detected in the XMM-Newton slew survey between August 2001 and December 2014.

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