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Scientific American
July 28, 2017
One source of excitement is a $440-million X-ray telescope led by the CNSA, called Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP). PlannedÃÂ ...
Nature.com
July 25, 2017
2017 China launches its first X-ray telescope, the Hard X-Ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). 2017 China plans to launch Chang'e-5 (pictured,ÃÂ ...
Cosmos
July 24, 2017
X-ray telescopes often use highly reflective mirrors that are coated with dense metals such as gold, nickel or iridium. Unlike optical mirrorsÃÂ ...
Spaceflight Now
July 21, 2017
Astronomers scoping the next potential X-ray telescope are working on ... planned European-led Athena X-ray telescope due for liftoff in 2028.
Xinhua
July 18, 2017
HXMT carries a trio of detectors -- the high energy X-ray telescope (HE), the medium energy X-ray telescope (ME) and the low energy X-rayÃÂ ...
spectroscopyNOW.com
July 2, 2017
An X-ray telescope featuring multi-foil optics from Rigaku Innovative Technologies Europe s.r.o. (RITE) was successfully launched into orbit andÃÂ ...
NASASpaceflight.com
June 14, 2017
Initially scheduled for launch back in 2010, China has finally launched the long-awaited Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) using aÃÂ ...
Space.com
February 14, 2017
Athena: ESA's Big X-ray Telescope .... With dozens of X-ray telescopes launched into space, it is difficult to summarize all of the missionsÃÂ ...
Firstpost
December 31, 1999
... navigation using Pulsars in space by using the observations from NICER's X-Ray telescope to calculate the exact position of NICER in orbit.
Universe Today
February 25, 2017
30 years ago today, a supernova explosion was spotted in the southern hemisphere skies. The exploding star was located in the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way - and Supernova 1987A was the brightest and nearest supernovaÃÂ ...
The Marshalltown
February 22, 2017
Black holes are almost invisible bodies and researchers cannot directly observe them with X-ray telescopes that use light to detect an object.
BBC News
February 18, 2017
"And with all the interest in gravitational waves building up right now, ways will be found to fly almost simultaneously with Athena (Europe's next-generation X-ray telescope slated to launch in 2028). "This would make perfect sense because we can tell ...
The Avion
February 14, 2017
The satellite spent a little more than a month in orbit and was designed to investigate the early universe with an extremely powerful X-ray telescope. However, an attitude control sensor error caused the satellite to over-correct its rotation, and it ...
Space.com
February 14, 2017
With dozens of X-ray telescopes launched into space, it is difficult to summarize all of the missions quickly. The first of these launched in the 1970s, and observations from X-ray telescopes continue today. Some of the larger and more recent missions ...
gbtimes
February 13, 2017
China's National Space Science Center (NSSC) is assessing more than 130 proposals for future innovative space science missions following a nationwide call.
Phys.Org
January 20, 2017
On 20 January 2017, the completed eROSITA X-ray telescope boarded a cargo plane and was transported from Munich, where it had been built at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, to Moscow.
McGill Tribune
January 17, 2017
Her research is focused on observational studies of neutron stars and the use of radio and X-ray telescopes to study pulsars, which are rapidly rotating neutron stars that regularly emit 'pulses' of radiation.
Phys.Org
January 16, 2017
They have a wide variety of applications, including in X-ray telescopes, wireless mice, TV remote controls, robotic sensors, and video cameras.
Space.com
January 16, 2017
Observations were performed using the orbiting Chandra X-ray Telescope, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and several other telescopes.
The Missouri Injury Blog (blog)
January 13, 2017
Along with data from X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory, Hubble also helps unveil the mysteries of black holes.
Space.com
January 12, 2017
Past decadal surveys have recommended investing in what eventually became the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (set to launch in 2018). The 2010 decadalÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
January 12, 2017
Another lead comes from the Chandra Deep Field South, an image created by a space-based x-ray telescope that observed the same patch of sky for a cumulative 81 days.
Tech Times
January 11, 2017
Along with data from X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory, Hubble also helps unveil the mysteries of black holes.
ScienceAlert
January 9, 2017
The new findings were made possible by NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) - a space-based X-ray telescope. Using NuSTAR, Boorman's team measured high-energy X-ray emissions coming from IC 3639 - a galaxy some 170 millionÃÂ ...
New Straits Times Online
January 8, 2017
Adlyka, who is currently pursuing her Phd at the Centre of Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham University, United Kingdom, was among British researchers who conducted analysis of the American space agency NASA's most recent X-ray telescope calledÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 7, 2017
PUNE: India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have played an important part in making a rare discovery about the universe.
Highland Mirror
January 6, 2017
And the appearance and the disappearance of light are likely due to the lighthouse effect. The astronomers have taken a new route to study the nature of FRB 121102.
Sky & Telescope (blog)
January 5, 2017
While very few planetary-science missions will launch in 2017, we do have a new exoplanet hunter, a lunar-sample return, a space weather satellite, and an X-ray telescope headed into orbit. Farther afield, the Cassini mission at Saturn comes to a ...
Gizmodo
January 4, 2017
Sometimes, the best telescopes on Earth need a little help making their observations more meaningful. NASA announced yesterday that it had decided to fund the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE, pronounced ix-pee) mission, a polarized X-rayÃÂ ...
Military Technologies
December 29, 2016
China will continue to seek evidence of dark matter; CNSA will launch hard X ray telescope to study matter dynamics; number of experiments with utilization of Shijian satellites is planned: from biology, medicine, material design or physics.
Sputnik International
December 26, 2016
Recently scientists discovered an extremely unusual cluster of early galaxies, CL J1001+0220, using the XMM Newton and Chandra x-ray telescopes. The cluster was discovered to have been formed in the early Universe, Alexey Finogenov, a researcherÃÂ ...
Counsel & Heal
December 23, 2016
In this image provided by NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team, a planetary nebula named NGC 6302, also known as, Butterfly Nebula and Bug Nebula, in the Scorpius constellation is pictured July 27, 2009 in Space.
Travel+Leisure
December 22, 2016
It was created as a composite of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (the world's most powerful X-ray telescope), the ROSAT telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope's SuperCosmos Sky Survey.
The Marshalltown
December 20, 2016
It's snowing in space! Well, not really - but astronomers are calling this colorful nebula a "winter wonderland." With that frosty blue hue and flurries of stars speckled across cosmic clouds, this wintry nebula is simply stunning.
Space Daily
December 12, 2016
The mirror will become part of the X-ray telescope, which is essential in precisely locating these new discoveries. On Wednesday 7 December there was a formal handover of the delicate and very expensive glass components that form part of this mirror by ...
gbtimes
December 9, 2016
ECLAIRs is a wide-field X-ray and gamma-ray camera for detecting Gamma Ray Bursts, and MXT, a Microchannel X-ray Telescope.
Phys.Org
December 9, 2016
Launched 17 years ago, ESA's orbiting X-ray telescope has helped scientists around the world to understand some of our Universe's most mysterious events, from what happens in and around black holes to how galaxies formed.
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
December 7, 2016
These features were discovered when X-ray telescopes were first flown above the Earth's atmosphere to reveal the structure of the corona across the solar disc.
CBS News
December 5, 2016
The faint X-rays radiating from the Little Friend were first spotted in 2003, using Chandra's high-resolution X-ray telescope. In 2013, astronomers later found the Little Friend had a mass between two and 24 times that of the sun, and deduced that it ...
IanVisits (blog)
December 5, 2016
The Science Museum's existing spacecraft collection include a Black Knight Gamma 201 engine bay, the R4 Black Arrow launch vehicle (with Prospero satellite flight spare) and the Spacelab-2 X-ray telescope, flown on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Phys.Org
November 18, 2016
The Russian scientists used the X-ray telescope (XRT) on NASA's Swift space observatory to measure the threshold luminosity that marks the transition of a pulsar to the propeller regime.
SpaceFlight Insider
November 10, 2016
Additional cost savings would occur due to the fact X-ray telescopes can be made smaller and lighter. In comparison, current spacecraft navigation systems rely on a global network of large ground-based radio antennas like NASA's Deep Space NetworkÃÂ ...
Business Insider
November 7, 2016
Lisse's team used the Chandra X-ray telescope, once in 2014 and three more times in 2015, to look for Pluto X-rays. Chandra detected just seven photons streaming from Pluto in a total of about two days' worth of observing time.
iT News
November 7, 2016
NASA researchers will use 56 X-ray telescopes from the Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) to detect the X-ray pulses from MXS.
The Planetary Society (blog)
November 1, 2016
... satellites will be placed into orbit for Europe by an Ariane V rocket on November 17. Other potential launches this month include the Echostar 21 communications satellite aboard a Russian Proton rocket, as well as a high-energy X-ray telescope by ...
Space.com
October 29, 2016
A new NASA video explains the origin of a mammoth, pumpkin-shaped star, which is blasting off powerful X-rays and spinning so fast it's squashed to look like the festive gourd.
Tech Times
October 29, 2016
Using the optical/ultraviolet and X-ray telescopes on the Swift spacecraft, astronomers carried out the Kepler-Swift Active Galaxies and Stars Survey (KSwAGS).
The Weather Network
October 28, 2016
Case in point, the Kepler Space Telescope and the Swift X-Ray Telescope have teamed up to reveal a type of star that takes on a special significance around this time of year... these large, rapidly-rotating red/orange stars bear a striking resemblance ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
October 25, 2016
That's interesting, but it's also irritating to astronomers: They're so close together it's been difficult to separate them using X-ray telescopes. And we know they're emitting copious X-rays; the problem is knowing which black hole is emitting what ...
Phys.Org
October 18, 2016
According to the paper, the observations confirm the presence of significant large-amplitude variability for such a large black hole mass in all bands probed by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) and X-Ray Telescope (XRT). The results show ...
