See the cosmos with X-ray vision—Japan's new Hitomi space telescope
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
In June 1962, an Aerobee 150 sounding-rocket blasted above the Earth's atmosphere from the White Sands Missile Range in the United States of America. During its five-minute flight, the small research craft aimed to detect X-rays fluorescing from the moon. What it found instead would take a decade to explain.