X-ray Mirrors Images

A view of the back side of an XMM-Newton mirror module. Focused X-ray photons leave the mirrors from this side and continue on to enter the detectors in the foci of the mirror shells, or onto the Reflection Grating Arrays.

back side of an XMM-Newton mirror module
(Photo courtesy of D. de Chambure, XMM-Newton Project, ESA/ESTEC)

A section of the X-ray mirror assembly. Notice the 58 closely-nested X-ray mirrors. Each segment is about 1 mm thick.

section of X-ray mirror assembly
(Image courtesy of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, 1998 calendar picture)