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Grazing Incidence X-ray Telescopes

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X rays penetrate objects they strike head on. To focus them, X rays have to be gently nudged by skimming off cylindrical “mirrors.”
The shapes of the mirrors optimize the focus. The bottom diagram shows how X rays are focused in the Chandra X-ray
Telescope
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