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Welcome to the XMM-Newton Science Archive
The X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, XMM-Newton, is an ESA X-ray observatory launched on 10 December 1999. It carries 3 high-throughput X-ray telescopes with unprecedented effective area and an Optical Monitor, the first flown on an X-ray observatory.
The XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA) provides simple and flexible access to data from the XMM-Newton mission including searches on the associated EPIC and OM catalogues. The XSA has been developed for the XMM-Newton project by the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) with requirements provided by the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre.
Top Features
Search
Search through all XMM-Newton data, EPIC and OM catalogues.
XMM-Newton
Web page of the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre.
Command line access
Command line and URL access to XSA data.
Interactive Analysis
How to perform on-the-fly data analysis and processing interactively.
TAP Queries
How to query the XSA Database via Table Access Protocol (TAP).
ASTROQUERY
How to query the XSA Database using the XMM-Newton astroquery module.
Catalogues and Tools
Links to full catalogue downloads and XSA related tools.
Documentation
Links to XMM-Newton documentation about observations, data and products, and video tutorials.
Contact
For questions, suggestions or problem reports, contact the XMM-Newton Helpdesk.
XMM-Newton Images
| XMM-Newton catches black hole feasting on a star |
 Artist's impression of the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy accreting mass from a star that dared to venture too close to the galaxy's centre. |
| The X-ray view of the Galactic Centre |
 X-ray broad-band mosaic image of more than a hundred individual XMM-Newton observations within the central degree of the Milky Way. |
| Light Echo Around the Youngest Known X-ray Binary |
 Astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton telescope have discovered a bright X-ray light echo in the form of four well-defined rings around the neutron star at the center of an X-ray binary system called Circinus X-1. |
| PN A78: AN X-RAY TWIN OF PN A30 |
 Beneath the vivid hues of this eye-shaped cloud, named Abell 78, a tale of stellar life and death is unfolding. At the centre of the nebula, a dying star - not unlike our Sun - which shed its outer layers on its way to oblivion has, for a brief period of time, come back to echo its past glory. |
| 2015 Science Workshop: Group Picture |
 Participants of the workshop 'The Extremes of Black Hole Accretion' having taken place at the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain, 8th - 10th June 2015 |
| XMM-Newton self-portraits with planet Earth |
 This series of images was taken 15 years ago, a couple of months after the launch of ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory. These unique views, showing parts of the spacecraft main body and solar wings, feature a guest of honour - Earth - which crosses the field of view from left to right, as the satellite slews (...) |
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