Seeing stars with digital eyes.

Seeing stars with digital eyes.

The event horizon of a black hole and the most distant astronomical object ever observed are two of the many new views of the universe delivered to scientists by charge-coupled devices. This paper discusses the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer and the X-ray CCDs used in the device

Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 38, 7 (2001).
Main Author: Appell, D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer.
X-ray CCD.
Astronomical object observation.
Black hole.
Charge-coupled devices.