First image from the XMM-LSS Wide-Field X-Ray Survey

First image from the XMM-LSS X-Ray survey. It is actually a combination of fourteen separate "pointings" of this space observatory. It represents a region of the sky eight times larger than the full Moon and contains around 25 clusters. The circles represent the X-Ray sources previously known from the 1991 ROSAT All-Sky Survey.

Credit:

ESO

About the Image

Id:eso0320a
Type:Collage
Release date:14 July 2003
Related releases:eso0320
Size:2406 x 1444 px

About the Object

Name:XMM-LSS X-Ray survey
Type:Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category:Cosmology

Image Formats

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Colours & filters

BandTelescope
X-rayXMM-Newton