X-Rays Help Recover Opera Lost for 200 Years

X-Rays Help Recover Opera Lost for 200 Years

Scientists used X-rays to reveal the lost musical notations

NASA's Latest Stunning Photo of the Massive Supernova Explosion That Created Cassiopeia A

NASA's Latest Stunning Photo of the Massive Supernova Explosion That Created Cassiopeia A

NuSTAR can provide incredibly detailed X-ray images of these explosive events

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • December 11th, 2012
Terahertz Wireless Chip Successfully Created, Uses X-Rays

Terahertz Wireless Chip Successfully Created, Uses X-Rays

The milestone could open up new avenues on all levels of the IT industry

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • November 2nd, 2012
FOXSI Is a Next-Generation X-Ray Space Telescope That Will Only Live for 6 Minutes

FOXSI Is a Next-Generation X-Ray Space Telescope That Will Only Live for 6 Minutes

NASA scientists are studying small solar flares that are hard to detect

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • October 31st, 2012
Curiosity Finds Martian Sand to Be Similar to Hawaii's

Curiosity Finds Martian Sand to Be Similar to Hawaii's

The rover finished the first X-ray mineral analysis with CheMin

Kindle 3.4 iOS Adds X-Ray for Textbooks, Vertical Text & Manga

Kindle 3.4 iOS Adds X-Ray for Textbooks, Vertical Text & Manga

Get instant access to all the most important terms and concepts in a book

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • October 25th, 2012
Petite Supermassive Black Hole Found, Possibly Smallest Ever Discovered

Petite Supermassive Black Hole Found, Possibly Smallest Ever Discovered

The black hole at the center of a spiral galaxy is very light for a supermassive

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • October 24th, 2012
Shiny New NuSTAR Captures Our Supermassive Black Hole as It Gorges Itself

Shiny New NuSTAR Captures Our Supermassive Black Hole as It Gorges Itself

The x-ray telescope observed a burst of energy coming from Milky Way's center

  • Space
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • October 6th, 2012
Newly Formed X-Ray Nova Sign of Undiscovered Black Hole in the Milky Way

Newly Formed X-Ray Nova Sign of Undiscovered Black Hole in the Milky Way

X-ray novae are very rare phenomenons created by black holes or neutron stars

  • Space
  • By Smaranda Biliuti
  • July 15th, 2010
Cosmic Explosion Blinds NASA Satellite

Cosmic Explosion Blinds NASA Satellite

X-ray traveled 5 billion years before getting to Earth

  • Space
  • By Smaranda Biliuti
  • July 10th, 2010
New Jet-Blowing Black Hole Discovered

New Jet-Blowing Black Hole Discovered

A new stellar black hole has been discovered by two CNRS astronomers

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • February 27th, 2009
200 Million-Year-Old Pulsar Remains Active

200 Million-Year-Old Pulsar Remains Active

It's currently observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory

  • Space
  • By Dan Talpalariu
  • November 20th, 2008
Magnetars Have Extremely Powerful Magnetic Fields

Magnetars Have Extremely Powerful Magnetic Fields

Their fields influence the behavior of matter

X-ray Scotch Tape

X-ray Scotch Tape

Scotch tape emits tiny X-rays only under vacuum conditions

  • Space
  • By Dan Talpalariu
  • September 18th, 2008
Black Holes and X-ray Pulses

Black Holes and X-ray Pulses

The "missing-link" between giant and small black holes has been found

  • Space
  • By Gabriel Gache
  • July 19th, 2008
Bright Nova Missed by Astronomers Spotted by XMM-Newton

Bright Nova Missed by Astronomers Spotted by XMM-Newton

One of the brightest nova of the decade missed by researchers, found three months later

 
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