Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Scorpius X-1 |
The brightest X-ray source in the sky and the first to be discovered. It is a low-mass X-ray binary star. The X-rays are thought to originate from a neutron star and an associated accretion disc.
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