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Cos-B was the first European Space Agency
European Space Agency

The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmentalism organisation dedicated to the Space exploration, currently with 18 member states....
 mission to study gamma-ray
Gamma ray

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation produced by atom particle interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation or radioactive decay....
 sources. The mission consisted of a satellite containing X-ray and gamma-ray detectors, which was launched by NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 on behalf of the ESA on August 9, 1975. The mission was completed on April 25 1982, after the satellite had been operational for more than 6.5 years, four years longer than planned. Scientific results included the 2CG Catalogue listing around 25 gamma ray sources and a map of the Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
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Cos-B was the first European Space Agency
European Space Agency

The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmentalism organisation dedicated to the Space exploration, currently with 18 member states....
 mission to study gamma-ray
Gamma ray

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation produced by atom particle interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation or radioactive decay....
 sources. The mission consisted of a satellite containing X-ray and gamma-ray detectors, which was launched by NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 on behalf of the ESA on August 9, 1975. The mission was completed on April 25 1982, after the satellite had been operational for more than 6.5 years, four years longer than planned. Scientific results included the 2CG Catalogue listing around 25 gamma ray sources and a map of the Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
. The satellite also observed the Cygnus X-3
Cygnus x-3

Cygnus X-3 is one of the stronger binary X-ray sources in the sky.Located about 37,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus , which straddles the galactic plane, although it is only the third brightest x-ray source in the constellation after the more famous Cygnus X-1, it is much further away on the far side of the Milky Way and is obs...
 pulsar
Pulsar

Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The observed periods of their pulses range from 1.4 milliseconds to 8.5 seconds....
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