NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Press Enter or click the Search button to begin your search.

Back to Results
Radiation in the universeWhen Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered radiation one hundred years ago, it seemed that what was discovered was one of the rarest and most volatile members of the family of the basic modules of our natural world. Today cosmologists report that a substantial part of the universe's radiation energy consists of X-rays, which travel through cosmic space with the speed of light.
Document ID
19960003339
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Stuhlinger, Ernst
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Truemper, Joachim
(Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Extraterrestrische Physik Garching, Germany)
Weisskopf, Martin
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Subject Category
Space Radiation
Report/Patent Number
NASA-TM-111095
NAS 1.15:111095
Report Number: NASA-TM-111095
Report Number: NAS 1.15:111095
Accession Number
96N13348
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
No Preview Available