29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
... for 4-billion-year-old Martian organics containing nitrogen. Before using a technique called Nitrogen K-edge micro X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (μ-XANES) spectroscopy to detect the nitrogen content of the ALH84001 carbonates, the ELSI...
24 May 2021
A CubeSat that produces visible light on the ground to be launched in NASA initiative
... escape from low redshift star-forming galaxies, and AEPEX (Atmospheric Effects of Precipitation through Energetic X-rays), a scientific investigation mission that aims to better understand the influence of the magnetosphere on the Earth’s upper...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
... of comet 46P/Wirtanen allowed astronomers to study it in detail. They combined the unique capabilities of Hubble, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to study how gases are released from the nucleus...
02 October 2021
The Chandra X-ray Observatory
...texts such as this. The subject is the Chandra X-ray Observatory which, as the book’s subtitle confirms, was ...chapters describe the spacecraft and the many astronomical sources of x-rays it is designed to observe - from stars and planetary systems...
05 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... more distant galaxies, which are harder to see." X-ray binaries are formed when a star much larger than our ..., Wik and colleagues are aiming to distinguish what fraction of X-ray binaries are black holes or neutron stars in order to understand ...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
...'s magnetic field), Jupiter produces bright and energetic X-ray auroras, but Saturn doesn’t. Stranger still, a ...atom, and the process is not energetic enough to create X-rays. Jupiter’s X-ray aurora on the other hand is fundamentally an ion aurora,...
