A lightweight new X-ray telescope could finally give scientists something they’ve never had before: a complete chemical map of the Moon. Researchers used detailed mission simulations to show that a ...
A color-coded X-ray image from ground-based testing at SPring-8 shows the X-ray optics successfully focusing X-rays onto a sharp central point. Yellow-green indicates the highest X-ray concentration, ...
The past decades have witnessed rapid advances in X-ray astronomy enabled by ever more sophisticated optical systems. Central to these developments are grazing-incidence mirror assemblies employing ...
The Advanced X-Ray Imaging Satellite, or AXIS, mission would have flown a large X-ray telescope. Credit: Univ. of Maryland WASHINGTON — NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large ...
Shortly before midnight Eastern time on Monday, a satellite orbiting 600 kilometers above Earth did something no X-ray telescope in history was designed to do as reliably: it caught an entirely ...
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