CHANNELS

Aerospace

Automotive

Automated & Autonomous Vehicles

Battery & Electrification Technology

Defense

Drone TV

Electronics

Manufacturing & Prototyping

Materials

Medical

Motion Control

RF & Microwave Technology

Robotics & Automation

Sensors & IoT

Test & Measurement

Aerospace
Automotive
Automated & Autonomous Vehicles
Battery & Electrification Technology
Defense
Drone TV
Electronics
Manufacturing & Prototyping
Materials
Medical
Motion Control
RF & Microwave Technology
Robotics & Automation
Sensors & IoT
Test & Measurement
Aerospace & Defense
Search Results

X-Ray Mirrors Offer New Window on Cosmos

A NASA orbiting telescope able to view the cosmos through the lens of hard X-rays has launched, and several members of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, a joint SLAC-Stanford University effort, are eager to take in the sights. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) was developed by a team of scientists and engineers from the California Institute of Technology. It will use an innovative system of nested X-ray mirrors to open a new window onto the cosmos: the high-energy X-ray window. This is the same range of X-ray wavelengths used to image broken bones and scan luggage. NuSTAR's mirrors will collect high-energy X-ray photons emitted by cosmic sources, focusing the light into images ten times sharper and 100 times more sensitive than any previous high-energy X-ray telescope.

Topics:
Aerospace Imaging

More From SAE Media Group

    Transcript

    00:00:01 [Music] Stanford University Newar is a very exciting new satellite based Mission it is a instrument that focuses hard x-rays the kind of x-rays that you would expect in the medical office onto a detector that is sensitive to those x-rays you've seen the package looking a bit like may be one of those small office siiz

    00:00:26 refrigerators and it has to extend to be a telescope 10 m long then the fun begins then we start looking at the most extreme objects in the universe we're going to learn about black holes on the scales of tens of sun masses to Millions to billions of sun masses in the nuclei of galaxies motion this telescope is going to be at least 100 times as sensitive probably even more so than

    00:00:51 anything ever flown before ustar I think is a very large piece of the puzzle of understanding the high energy Universe it will teach us a lot more than the very blurry images that we have from previous telescopes every time you launch a mission design an experiment or put together an observation that is significantly more sensitive than anything in the past the discoveries are

    00:01:14 very likely in fact for sure will follow for more please visit us at stanford.edu