When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going ... Consequently, there are no ground-based X-ray or far-infrared telescopes: these extremes of the spectrum can only be observed ...

Earth’s atmosphere absorbs X-rays, so X-ray astronomers must place their telescopes in space ... SN2006gy to confirm the mechanism. When they do, they will have to credit Chandra and its ...

» What are X rays and what do they do? X rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation that can penetrate or pass through the human body and produce shadow-like images of bones and some organs. The ...

Lasers can produce light with wavelengths spanning the visible spectrum and beyond, extending from the infrared well into the X-ray band ... but terrestrial telescopes do. To combat this effect ...