The Sun was the first observed x‐ray star. In 1948 rocket‐borne instruments, carried out of the terrestrial atmosphere for only a few minutes at a time, detected solar x rays. Then in April 1960 instruments recorded the first x‐ray photograph of the Sun.
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X-rays
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