Scorpius X-1

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4704. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Binary Stars

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The brightest cosmic x-ray source in the constellation of Scorpius and
the first cosmic x-ray source to be discovered. Detected for the first
time in 1962 by instrumentation carried to an altitude of 225 km by an
Aerobee rocket, Scorpius X-1 is, apart from occasional transient
sources, the brightest cosmic source of x-radiation in the sky....

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