x-ray

NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has located its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission ...

Surface chemistry diagram of the studied reaction. (c) Hirohito Ogasawara/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Seeing a reaction in real-time using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser

by Tibi Puiu

March 19, 2013

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, once home to the longest particle accelerator for ...

The new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5. (c) NASA

NuSTAR’s high power X-ray images two unusually bright black holes in spiral galaxy [STUNNING PHOTOS]

by Tibi Puiu

January 8, 2013

The new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5. (c) NASA Launched ...

The Martian sand collected by the Curiosity rover turns out to be similar to volcanic soil on Hawaii, NASA scientists say. (c) AP

Mars bite tastes like Earth – soil similar to Hawaii

by Tibi Puiu

October 31, 2012

The Martian sand collected by the Curiosity rover turns out to be similar to volcanic soil ...

This artist's illustration shows an enormous halo of hot gas (in blue) around the Milky Way galaxy. Also shown, to the lower left of the Milky Way, are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, two small neighboring galaxies. The halo of gas is shown with a radius of about 300,000 light years, although it may extend significantly further. (c) NASA

The Milky Way is surrounded by a huge, hot halo of gas

by Tibi Puiu

September 24, 2012

Recent measurements conducted by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and observed by other X-ray instruments from around world and in space, suggest that ...

Stingray X-ray [picture]

by Mihai Andrei

September 5, 2012

Just an X-ray of a stingray, nothing more to add here.

The death cry of a star being destroyed by a black hole

by Mihai Andrei

January 16, 2020

Stars suffer, too, you know. Astronomers have recently discovered a distinctive X-ray signal coming from a star on the verge ...

Free-electron X-ray laser reveals protein architecture at unprecedented detail

by Tibi Puiu

April 18, 2014

Curious enough, one hundred years after renowned physicist Max von Lauefirst used X-ray diffraction to unravel the intricate atomic architecture of molecules, ...

Caption of the Linac Coherent Light Source SXR experimental chamber, which was used to heat a solid material at 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, and turn it into hot, dense matter. (c) University of Oxford/Sam Vinko

World’s most powerful X-ray laser heats matter at 2 million degrees

by Tibi Puiu

January 25, 2012

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