An X-ray View of Space

If you had X-ray Vision what would space look like?  Now NASA has revealed what you would see.  Outer Space looking a whole lot busier than usual in an image Jackson Pollock might have admired:

Visit the NASA web page that explores this image:

NICER’s Night Moves Trace the X-ray Sky

The same image with some prominent x-ray sources labelled

NICER is NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR.  Learn all about it at the...

NASA NICER Information Page 

NASA also has some great education videos about all the different wavelengths of light that make up  the electromagnetic spectrum, including x-rays:

The spectrum below displays the uses to which we put various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum:

For more on the above illustration, take the NASA Science:

Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Science at NASA video about x-rays

The TED Educational Service  has an excellent video on the history and nature of x-rays:

How X-rays see through your skin - Ge Wang

X-ray Astronomy is a new way of looking at outer space and reveals much more than the light we see can reveal.  The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy and has a fascinating and informative website:
         

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Cambridge University provides an excellent multipage...

Introduction to X-Ray Astronomy