Multimedia Gallery

These pages contain images, video, and animations about the XMM-Newton mission. These can be used for talks, presentations, classrooms, and in print.

Image Gallery -- European Space Agency (ESA) collection of images about XMM-Newton and of its astronomical targets.

Making of XMM-Newton -- Series of images that show XMM-Newton satellite through its contruction phase.

Video Archive -- "An Observatory in Space" ( 27MB. WMV format.)

Flash Gallery -- A Flash slide show of the XMM-Newton satellite (courtesy ESA)

XMM-Newton Image Gallery visible in Google Earth

The XMM-Newton Gallery, a collection of astronomical images and spectra taken with the XMM-Newton X-ray and optical instruments, (see http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/gallery/public/ ) can be displayed, since the 24th of August, in association with the corresponding celestial target objects in the latest version of Google Earth:

You will have to download the Google Earth file format (KML) file xmm_gallery.kmz, available at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/gallery/images/xmm_gallery.kmz
and load it into Google Earth.

'Switch to Sky' from the Google Earth 'View' menu and enjoy the XMM-Newton Gallery projected onto the sky.