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DescriptionProportional Counter Array RXTE.jpg	English: This is an image of a real X-ray detector. The instrument is called the Proportional Counter Array and it is on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite.
Date	27 March 2007
Source	NASA, The Electromagnetic Spectrum, X-rays url=http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/xrays.html
Author	NASA Official: Ruth Netting
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X-ray detectors collect individual X-rays (photons of X-ray light) and things like the number of photons collected, the energy of the photons collected, or how fast the photons are detected, can tell us things about the object that is emitting them.

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