Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ends mission after 'listening' to the universe
- Written by Silas Laycock, Professor of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Top-down artist depiction of a tiny black hole and a pileup of gas and matter swirling toward the center.NASA
On May 1, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft reentered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. Although not as well-known to the public as Hubble and Chandra, RXTE ranks among NASA’s most successful astrophysics...
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