Penetrating view. (Science News of the year: the weekly newsmagazine of science).Sensitive X-ray, infrared, and radio telescopes This is a list of radio telescopes that are or have been used for radio astronomy. It includes both single dishes and interferometer arrays. They are listed by region, then by name; unnamed telescopes are in reverse size order at the end of the lists. are providing an extraordinarily clear view of the dust-shrouded center of our galaxy (161: 122 *). This mosaic of X-ray images reveals hundreds of point sources at the Milky Way's core, including white dwarf stars white dwarf star Any of a class of small, faint stars representing the end point of the evolution of stars without enough mass to become neutron stars or black holes. , neutron stars neutron star, extremely small, extremely dense star, about double the sun's mass but only a few kilometers in radius, in the final stage of stellar evolution. Astronomers Baade and Zwicky predicted the existence of neutron stars in 1933. , and stellar-mass black holes. All are bathed in a fog of multimillion-degree gas that surrounds a supermassive black hole. |
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