ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton joins the fleet of spacecraft taking part in one of the world’s largest astronomical observation campaigns – the Deep Impact event – on 4 July 2005. On 4 ...

XMM-Newton has been surprised by a rare type of galaxy, from which it has detected a higher number of X-rays than thought possible. The observation gives new insight into the powerful processes ...

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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 ...

In examining new satellite data, an international team of scientists, including researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, discovered an unusually bright spot created by an enormous X-ray nova ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory has captured Comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light. This marks the first X-ray observation of the third interstellar object recorded in our Solar System. The observations ...

The European Space Agency's X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 3 December for around 20 hours. During that time, the comet was about 282–285 million km from the ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, ...

As reported in a single Chinese record, the supernova of 185 AD was visible for at least 8 months and reached a brightness comparable to Mars. In 2007, optical, radio, and X-ray emission observed at a ...