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The Question
(Submitted December 02, 1996)
Where could I find some pictures of UV radiation (if it's possible).
Please send me the URL address.
The Answer
High-energy at the HEASARC covers the energy range of 100 eV on up,
X-rays and gamma-rays, which is beyond what most astronomers consider to
be the UV. However, if you are open minded about it, we have some great
images from the soft X-ray (100 - 2000 eV) band. Many of these can be
found in the ROSAT (Roentgen Satellite, a German-UK-US collaboration) Guest
Observer Facility pages:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/rosgof.html
in the Public Gallery area:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/pretty_pictures_rosat.html.
HEASARC has images from a vast array of experiments (66), although not
all have images of astrophysical objects. These can be found at:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/images/pretty_pictures.html.
UV images from UIT (Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope)
can be found at:
http://trifle.gsfc.nasa.gov/UIT/Astro1/Astro1_pictures.html.
Also, the Hubble Space Telescope ventures a bit into the near UV. Their
pages can be found at:
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/edugroup/educational-activities.html.
In addition, the
Other Resources
button on the Imagine the Universe! pages can lead you to pages of other groups
with outreach activities.
Steve Snowden for Imagine the Universe!.
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