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The Story of SCO X1
1962, the infancy of X-ray astronomy....Sure,
astrophysicists knew that X-rays are produced in the stupendous inferno deep
inside the Sun, but they also knew that its X-ray output was miniscule when compared with the
visible light that the Sun emits. In order to see X-rays from other stars that
are hundreds of light years away, these stars
would have to produce a million times more energy in X-rays than the Sun does. No
one thought it likely, most thought it impossible. One thing was certain: if it
ever happened, it simply could not be an ordinary star....
The Sun in X-ray light
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