Space

Revealing the Hidden World with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC

.X-ray reviews likewise allow our team to probe mysteries of the Universe on the littlest scales. X-ray observations of portable objects like white belittles, neutron superstars, and also great voids enable our company to make use of deep space as a natural science laboratory to study health conditions that are actually orders of immensity even more severe in regards to thickness, pressure, temperature level, and also magnetic field strength than anything that may be generated in the world. In this particular astrophysical laboratory, scientists assume to expose brand-new physics at the subatomic scale through administering examinations like probing the neutron superstar equation of state as well as screening quantum electrodynamics along with observations of neutron star atmospheres. At NASA's Marshall Area Tour Center, a team of experts and also engineers is actually creating, testing, and also soaring cutting-edge optics that carry deep space's X-ray mysteries into sharper focus.