{"id":171499,"date":"2023-09-07T05:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/japan-launched-an-x-ray-telescope-more-advanced-than-its-peers"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:23:20","slug":"japan-launched-an-x-ray-telescope-more-advanced-than-its-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/japan-launched-an-x-ray-telescope-more-advanced-than-its-peers","title":{"rendered":"Japan launched an X-ray telescope more advanced than its peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WebVRTusuF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s space agency has <a data-i13n=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2023\/09\/20230907-1_e.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2023\/09\/20230907-1_e.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0\">launched<\/a> a rocket on September 6 at 7:42 PM EDT <a data-i13n=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2023\/jaxa-nasa-xrism-mission-ready-for-liftoff\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2023\/jaxa-nasa-xrism-mission-ready-for-liftoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0\">carrying a telescope<\/a> that\u2019s more advanced than NASA\u2019s Chandra and other X-ray observatories already in orbit. The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission \u2014 or XRISM but pronounced as \u201ccrism\u201d \u2014 is a mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) in collaboration with NASA and with contributions by the European Space Agency. Lia Corrales, a University of Michigan astronomer and mission participant, told <a data-i13n=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/06\/science\/japan-launch-moon-xrism-slim.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/06\/science\/japan-launch-moon-xrism-slim.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> that XRISM represents \u201cthe next step in X-ray observations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The telescope is considered more powerful than its predecessors because of its tools. One of them, called Resolve, is a microcalorimeter spectrometer with the capability to measure tiny increases in temperature when X-rays hit its 6-by-6-pixel detector. It must operate in an environment that\u2019s a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, enabled by a multistage mechanical cooling process inside its refrigerator-sized container with liquid helium. But so long as it\u2019s working, the tool can measure each individual X-ray energy and can provide information on its source\u2019s composition, motion and physical state.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em> says the mission team expects Resolve\u2019s spectroscopic data to be 30 times sharper than what Chandra\u2019s instruments can provide. It can detect X-rays with energies that range from 400 to 12,000 electron volts, which NASA says can give us the data needed to know more about the hottest regions, the largest structures and the objects with the strongest gravity pull in the universe. XRISM\u2019s science operations won\u2019t begin until January, though, since scientists still have to switch on its instruments and tune them in the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s space agency has launched a rocket on September 6 at 7:42 PM EDT carrying a telescope that\u2019s more advanced than NASA\u2019s Chandra and other X-ray observatories already in orbit. The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission \u2014 or XRISM but pronounced as \u201ccrism\u201d \u2014 is a mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}