NASA using astronomical forensics to study exploded star

NASA using astronomical forensics to study exploded star

Space Daily

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2022

A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging, or Micro-X, experiment will launch Aug. 21 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The mission's target of study is some 11,000 light-

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