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XRB
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XRBX-Ray Background
XRBX-Band Radar Beacon


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266), and Giacconi still uses data from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory to study sources that make up the X-ray background.
Nobel prizes honor innovative approaches; looking into a worm, ... by Science News
An astronomer with a long history and expertise in deep surveys, Giacconi was the principal investigator of the program which discovered the first X-ray stars and the X-ray background in the 1960s and conceived of and led the implementation of the Uhuru and Einstein X-ray Observatories in the 1970s.
Nobel Laureate Dr. Riccardo Giacconi Headlines 40th Space Congress ... by Business Wire
The source of X-ray background is "just the sort of thing one hoped Chandra would discover," comments astronomer Roger D.
X-ray Data Reveal Black Holes Galore by Cowen, R. / Science News
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