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X-rays
NASA overview on x-rays describing what they are and how they can be used for x-ray astronomy and medical imaging.

X-rays restore lost segment of 200 year old opera
Physicists have used X-rays to reveal music hidden for 200 years.


Enlightened
A site from the ThinkQuest competition about light giving brief descriptions of electromagnetic radiation from radio waves and microwaves to x rays and gamma rays.

Detection of cosmic-ray or gamma-ray air showers
Short article explaining how cosmic ray showers are detected.

Cambridge Cosmology
Links and information on all aspects of cosmology including the Big Bang, Galaxies and Clusters, Cosmic Radiation and Cosmic Strings. All the information is supported with images and there are a ...

X-rays
Part of the Physics 2000 site which uses JAVA applets in a section called Einstein's Legacy to simply explain what X-rays are. This is a useful site for school students with simple well written ...

COBE Satellite
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite was launched to explore the cosmic microwave background radiation. It has discovered fluctuations in that radiation which are important to big bang ...


The Electromagnetic Spectrum
NASA page about electromagnetic waves with descriptions of such waves and their uses.Covers radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet (UV), x-rays and gamma rays.