October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... measuring bone mineral density (BMD) with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry is the basic method for assessing the well-being...Fedorov (above) during SIRIUS-21, using the XCT2000L peripheral X-ray computer tomograph (pQCT) (DLR)and (above left) studying...
13 January 2016
High-energy theory models questioned as neutron star produces most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected
...Earth and is thus responsible for the pulsed appearance of the emission, generally observed to consist of radio and X-ray beams. This type of radiation is traditionally thought to originate within the magnetosphere. Conversely, the TeV beams observed...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... this task, is a team of international astronomers headed by Kevin France, who have undertaken a panchromatic study – from the X-ray to mid-IR – of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 11 nearby planet hosting low-mass stars (stars with masses...
28 April 2016
Rocket Launch from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Successful
...'s objective is the observation of gamma-ray bursts, high-energy cosmic rays and transient phenomena in the Earth's ...radiated by EAS (Extensive Air Showers) of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the earth atmosphere as well as for transients’...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) agreed to strengthen ties on the development of the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) that is scheduled to blast off in 2021 on a JAXA H-2A rocket; XRISM is being built...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... known about it except that it was there. Its presence was also given away by radiation, but instead of X-rays, the hydrogen atoms in this nebulous ring of material give off radio waves - millimetre wavelength radiation that...
