NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected the first X-ray emission from a 'little red dot'—a distant, mysterious object type first identified by the James Webb Space Telescope. The source, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 26, 1983, the European Space Agency launched its first X-ray Observatory into space. The spacecraft was called EXOSAT, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can ...

Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide from one kilometer away, by combining precision mirror-making technology ...

MPE scientists have separated solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) X-ray emission originating in our Solar System from the diffuse cosmic X-ray, using data from the SRG/eROSITA space telescope.

Scientists breathed a collective sigh of relief last week when NASA announced that the Chandra X-ray Observatory had been spared the chopping block — at least for another year. It was an abrupt ...

X‐ray optics and telescope mirror technology form the backbone of high-energy astrophysical research, enabling the capture and precise imaging of celestial X‐ray sources. Advances in the fabrication ...

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 Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — When NASA in the summer of 2017 launched its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or ...