Cluster of three LAXPC instruments in AIT (clean room) before integration into ASTROSAT are shown. JS Yadav TIFR, and ISRO ASTROSAT is India’s first dedicated science space mission which… ...

Enter the Soft X-Ray Materials Science instrument, or SXR, six weeks away from opening its hutch to experimenters.It can do both at once. By combining the ultra-fast laser pulses from the Linac ...

A collaboration between Argonne and several universities has led to the creation of a new high-throughput X-ray diffraction instrument that will enable materials research and clear the way for ...

Measuring transient X-rays with lobster eyes Date: May 18, 2012 Source: NASA Summary: A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could ...

A light field encompasses the combined intensity and direction of light rays, which the human eyes can process to precisely detect the spatial relationship between objects. Traditional light ...

Instead, the team used an instrument called a polarimeter, ... The team observed only weak bending of X-ray light (in technical terms, a low polarization fraction) from Cyg X-1.

Components from another instrument flown on space shuttle Endeavour in 1993 also were given new life. The mission was named DXL, for Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local Galaxy.

It’s hard to imagine an X-ray photo capturing the entire sky, and thanks to the folks at NASA we won’t ever have to. The U.S. space agency reports that its Neutron Star Interior Composition ...