Japan’s XRISM X-ray space telescope releases first data
Supernova remnant N132D, as seen in X-rays
Click for original image.
Japan’s XRISM X-ray space telescope, which launched in September, has now released first data and images.
One image showed the wide field view of the telescope’s Xtend imager, capable of viewing in X-rays an area of the sky 60% larger than the Moon. The second, shown to the right, provided a false color image of a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud along with spectroscopy that data provided. According to the caption, “the spectrum reveals peaks associated with silicon, sulfur, argon, calcium, and iron.”
These pictures were produced during the telescope’s check-out period since launch. The mission, though Japanese-led, is being managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which is now accepting observation proposals for a full science schedule of observations to begin in the summer of this year.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Supernova remnant N132D, as seen in X-rays
Click for original image.
Japan’s XRISM X-ray space telescope, which launched in September, has now released first data and images.
One image showed the wide field view of the telescope’s Xtend imager, capable of viewing in X-rays an area of the sky 60% larger than the Moon. The second, shown to the right, provided a false color image of a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud along with spectroscopy that data provided. According to the caption, “the spectrum reveals peaks associated with silicon, sulfur, argon, calcium, and iron.”
These pictures were produced during the telescope’s check-out period since launch. The mission, though Japanese-led, is being managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which is now accepting observation proposals for a full science schedule of observations to begin in the summer of this year.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Thank goodness he (Musk) has BOTH the courage AND the wherewithal to fight the Administrative State. We all owe him for this.