UK to lead X-ray space telescope team

THE European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a French-German-UK team, led by the UK's Leicester University, to run the X-Ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) space-observatory mission-survey science centre, with UK funding coming from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. The XMM, described as the "Hubble Space Telescope of X-ray astronomy", to ...

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