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Astronomische Nederlandse Satelliet Images

thumbnail of spacecraft photo The ANS spacecraft photo of ANS
thumbnail of spacecraft diagram Diagram of the ANS hardware
thumbnail of instrument diagram Diagram of the HXX experiment
thumbnail of orbit diagram The ANS orbit
thumbnail of burst The first X-ray burst event was detected from the globular cluster NGC 6624. X-ray bursts are due to the explosive thermonuclear burning of gas on the surface of neutron stars. The discovery event was found with the ANS satellite. The evolving spectrum of these bursts indicates that they come from an object about the size of a neutron star.