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X-ray optics have revolutionized x-ray astronomy; the degree of background suppression that these afford has led to a tremendous increase in sensitivity. The current Chandra observatory has the same collecting area (∼10 3 cm 2 ) as that of the non-imaging UHURU observatory, the first x-ray observatory which was launched in 1970, but has five orders of magnitude more sensitivity due...