MIT nanomirrors could enhance telescopes, more

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 18:21 in Astronomy & Space

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips. X-rays from space provide astronomers with important information about the most exotic events and objects in our universe, such as dark energy, black holes and neutron stars...

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