National Aeronautics and Space Administration

by Maggie Masetti

These pages are for anyone who wants basic information about multiwavelength or X-ray astronomy. You will find activities which can be done by anyone, students and non-students alike, scattered throughout.

These pages are based on the "Shedding a New Light on the Universe" print booklet that we produced to go along with the print version of our RXTE model. You can download a pdf version of the whole booklet. [1.5 MB pdf]

Table of Contents

• The Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum Activity
• What if we could see Infrared Light?
• X-ray Vision?
  • Multiwavelength Activity
• The Energetic Universe
  • Frequency, Wavelength, and Energy Activity
• A Telescope For All Occasions
• The Multiwavelength Milky Way
• The Crab Nebula in Different Energies
• X-ray Astronomy
• Imaging
• Spectroscopy
• Light Curves
  • X-ray Detection Activity
  • Graphing Activity
• Measuring Photon Energies
• Satellites and Their Parts
  • Satellite Activity
• The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
• What Does RXTE Look At?
  • What Does RXTE Look At Activity
• RXTE Discoveries
• And in the End...