File:Proportional Counter Array RXTE.jpg

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English: This is an image of a real X-ray detector. The instrument is called the Proportional Counter Array and it is on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite.
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Source NASA, The Electromagnetic Spectrum, X-rays url=http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/xrays.html
Author NASA Official: Ruth Netting
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X-ray detectors collect individual X-rays (photons of X-ray light) and things like the number of photons collected, the energy of the photons collected, or how fast the photons are detected, can tell us things about the object that is emitting them.

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