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X-Ray Telescope’s First 10 Years of Awesome Images

Ten years ago today, NASA launched the Chandra X-Ray Observatory aboard the space shuttle Columbia. And it has provided stunning images from the high-energy side of the electromagnetic spectrum ever...

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Video: New X-ray Camera Sees Through Melting Metal

A new high-speed X-ray video camera, now the fastest in the world, can see through molten metal and watch weld-weakening flaws form in real-time. The $670,000 device successfully captured X-ray footage...

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World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Illuminates Hidden Protein World

In brilliant bursts of light from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, physicists have taken snapshots of living viruses and see the 3-D shape of proteins frozen in nanometer-scale crystals. The...

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115-Year-Old Medical X-Ray Machine Comes Back to Life

A team of physicists, engineers and radiologists recently revived a first-generation X-ray device that had been collecting dust in a Dutch warehouse. The antique machine still sparked and glowed like a...

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Ancient Supernova Triggered by Stellar Cannibal

An ordinary star may have lived through a catastrophic explosion that created one of the most famous supernova remnants in astronomy. A new look at the cosmic debris cloud known as Tycho’s supernova...

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X-Ray Video Shows Dogs Drink Like Cats, Just Sloppier

High-speed X-ray videos show dogs don't drink by scooping up liquid. Instead, they use adhesion to drag up a column of liquid -- just like cats.

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Hidden Blades, Glowing Scorpions and Bug Genitalia: Great Science Images From...

See Also: Scorpions, Spiders and Sharks: Electron-Microscope Images Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scientific Microscope 35 Years of the World’s Best...

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X-rays Reveal Pigmentation of First Birds

By Mark Brown, Wired UK Confuciusornis sanctus, a prehistoric beaked bird which co-existed with dinosaurs some 120 million years ago, had a dark body, neck and tail, and impressive patterns along its...

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X-ray Laser to Recreate Conditions at Earth’s Core

An X-ray beamline in France may recreate conditions at the very center of the Earth -- a mysterious super-hot chamber that we know surprisingly little about.

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Black Hole-Hunting Telescope Takes First X-ray Photo

NASA's black hole-hunting NuSTAR telescope has taken its first images, the sharpest ever photos of high energy X-rays in deep space.

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Energetic X-Rays Seen for First Time From Young Supernova

NASA's Chandra space telescope took a gorgeous image of spiral galaxy M83 and detected the first X-ray photons from the collapsed core of a dead star, SN1957D.

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Video: 5 Years of Incredible X-Ray Explosions From the Sun

Want to see what happens when the sun wakes up? This amazing compilation shows every energetic X-ray outburst from the last five and a half years as our local star ramps up toward the most active part...

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