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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Telescopic Observations _ XMM-Newton Scores 1000 Top-class Science Results

Posted by: Rakhir Jan 25 2006, 12:31 PM

XMM-Newton scores 1000 top-class science results

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMAB0NZCIE_index_0.html

Posted by: ljk4-1 Mar 23 2006, 04:45 PM

Cannibal stars like their food hot, XMM-Newton reveals

ESA’s XMM-Newton has seen vast clouds of superheated gas, whirling around
miniature stars and escaping from being devoured by the stars’ enormous
gravitational fields - giving a new insight into the eating habits of
the galaxy’s ‘cannibal’ stars.

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM7T6OVGJE_index_0.html

Posted by: GravityWaves Mar 31 2006, 03:17 AM

Great news, but as usual ESA news items have been rare

It also helped out in Comet missions
http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xmm_lc/archive/2001/03_21_01.html
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=10335
http://xmm.sonoma.edu/news/archive/2005/07_04_05.html
Deep impact Tempel 1

Posted by: ljk4-1 May 3 2006, 04:15 PM

XMM-Newton 'spare-time' provides impressive sky survey

For the past four years, while ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has been
slewing between different targets ready for the next observation, it has kept
its cameras open and used this spare time to quietly look at the heavens. The
result is a 'free-of-charge' mission spin-off – a survey that has now covered an
impressive 25 percent of the sky.

Full story:

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMA7OOFGLE_index_0.html

Posted by: ustrax Jun 12 2006, 03:17 PM

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWD1AATME_index_0.html

Posted by: ustrax Feb 6 2007, 05:22 PM

ESA release:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMMMC4ENXE_index_0.html

spacEurope update:

From the Milky Way to a Milky Universe.
http://www.spaceurope.blogspot.com

Posted by: bobik Feb 7 2021, 05:42 PM

http://xmm-ssc.irap.omp.eu/claxson/index.php (Classification of X-ray Sources for Novices). A participatory science project with XMM-Newton data.