Pegasus To Launch High-Energy X-Ray Observatory

Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech
Astronomers have floated X-ray detectors on balloons, launched them on sounding rockets and put them on satellites since the late 1950s to sweep the sky. The goal is to unravel the story of a violent universe, where black holes swallow light, neutron stars are born and stars the size of the Sun puff...

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