Photographs

• EPIC Development
  Pictures taken mainly by the Leicester EPIC team during the building and testing of the EPIC MOS cameras.
• XMM-Newton Development
  Pictures taken by the Leicester team and from ESA publicity packs during the construction and testing of XMM-Newton.
• XMM-Newton launch
  Pictures taken at the launch of XMM-Newton from Kourou, French Guiana.

Movies

• An Observatory in Space (3:16)
  ©ESA 1999
  An overview of XMM-Newton and X-ray astronomy.
• News of Exploded Stars (2:44)
  ©ESA 1999
• Ways of Looking (2:35)
  ©ESA 1999
  Imaging X-rays with XMM-Newton's optics.
• Giant Black Holes (2:51)
  ©ESA 1999
  The nature of black holes and XMM-Newton's role in observing them.
• Golden Eyes (1:54)
  ©ESA 1999
  The engineering challenges in designing and building XMM-Newton's X-ray mirrors.
• Vampire Stars (2:32)
  ©ESA 1999
• X-Ray Vision (2:01)
  ©ESA 1999
• The Making of XMM (3:05)
  ©ESA 1999
  An insight into the development and construction of XMM-Newton.
• The Big Picture (2:47)
  ©ESA 1999
  X-ray astronomy's aims to understand deeper questions about the nature of the Universe.

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