XMM-Newton Announcement of Opportunity (AO-18) 21 August 2018 Proposals are solicited for observations with XMM-Newton in response to the eighteenth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-18, issued 21 August 2018. This AO covers the period May 2019 to April 2020 and is open to proposers from all over the world. The deadline for proposal submission is 5 October 2018, 12:00 UTC. Read more
ESA's X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton is unique. It is the biggest scientific satellite ever built in Europe, its telescope mirrors are amongst the most powerful ever developed in the world, and with its sensitive cameras it can see much more than any previous X-ray satellite.
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Students digging into data archive spot mysterious X-ray source 10 August 2018 An enigmatic X-ray source revealed as part of a data-mining project for high-school students shows unexplored avenues hidden in the vast archive of ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory. Read more
XMM-Newton finds missing intergalactic material 20 June 2018 After a nearly twenty-year long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have finally found evidence of hot, diffuse gas permeating the cosmos, closing a puzzling gap in the overall budget of 'normal' matter in the Universe. Read more
Star shredded by rare breed of black hole 18 June 2018 ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star. Read more
Cosmic blast takes rest at last 31 May 2018 ESA's XMM-Newton observations of a neutron star merger, obtained a few months after its discovery via gravitational waves, caught the moment when its X-ray emission stopped increasing, opening new questions about the nature of this peculiar source. Read more
Where is the Universe's missing matter? 18 April 2018 Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory have probed the gas-filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find 'missing' matter thought to reside there, but have come up empty-handed – so where is it? Read more
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- Star-circling bubble of gas
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- X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of 'killer' black hole
- Neutron star's echoes give astronomers a new measuring stick
- RX J1131-1231: Chandra & XMM-Newton Provide Direct Measurement of Distant Black Hole's Spin
- Rare magnetar discovered in the vicinity of a supernova remnant
- Coma Cluster: Clues to the Growth of the Colossus in Coma
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