Balloon-mounted Instrument Returns 'Hard' X-ray Image of Pulsar
Credit: NASA/NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
A U.S./Japanese testbed for a possible space telescope has returned the first high-energy "hard" X-ray image of a body in space from a balloon flight to 128,000 ft. Normally such X-rays scatter off an instrument mirror or pass right through the detector. The International Focusing Optics...
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