ESA - Integral

Integral in brief

Integral overview Integral factsheet A truly international mission

About Integral

The spacecraft The launcher The launch site - Baikonur The journey

Integral's mission

What's special?Why do we observe gamma rays?Observations: Seeing in the gamma-ray wavelengths The atoms that make us The densest objects in the Universe Giant black holes Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)

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Image gallery Pre-launch images, Sept 2002 Pre-launch images, October 2002 Video gallery 3D Flash 'model'Make a model

Integral disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation

22 July 2009 A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.

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Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star

16 June 2009 An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA’s XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars.

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Be an Integral astronomer - competition

20 April 2009 To mark the International Year of Astronomy, ESA is launching a special competition for secondary school students and undergraduates. Participants will use data obtained by the Integral space observatory to investigate objects in one of the most active regions of our Galaxy.

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More News

3 April 2009	Dissecting a stellar explosion

30 March 2009	Around the world in 80 telescopes at ESA

14 November 2008	XMM-Newton and Integral clues on magnetic powerhouses

13 October 2008	Faint gamma-ray bursts do actually exist

29 August 2008	Integral locates origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula

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ESA's gamma-ray astronomy mission

Where is Integral now?

Track Integral

For the media

Media Press Kit

Related ESA publications

Integral results leaflet (pdf)Integral mission brochure (pdf)

In depth

Integral in-depth Status reports