{"id":188802,"date":"2024-05-07T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/how-nasas-xrism-captures-space-data-with-just-36-pixels"},"modified":"2024-05-07T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:26:16","slug":"how-nasas-xrism-captures-space-data-with-just-36-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/how-nasas-xrism-captures-space-data-with-just-36-pixels","title":{"rendered":"How NASA\u2019s XRISM captures space data with just 36 pixels"},"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\/M-rw7ZtoBFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Resolve specializes in detecting \u201csoft\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/nasas-xrism-mission-to-unveil-unseen-universe-with-x-ray-vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\"> X-rays<\/a>, a form of light with energies 5,000 times greater than visible light. This allows it to pierce through the veil and observe the universe\u2019s most violent and energetic phenomena: supermassive black holes, sprawling galaxy clusters, and the fiery aftermath of supernovae.<\/p>\n<p>However, these 36 pixels are far from ordinary. They function as a \u201cmicrocalorimeter spectrometer,\u201d explains Brian Williams, NASA\u2019s XRISM project scientist. Each pixel acts like a miniature thermometer, meticulously measuring the temperature change caused by an incoming X-ray. This seemingly simple act reveals a wealth of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolve specializes in detecting \u201csoft\u201d X-rays, a form of light with energies 5,000 times greater than visible light. This allows it to pierce through the veil and observe the universe\u2019s most violent and energetic phenomena: supermassive black holes, sprawling galaxy clusters, and the fiery aftermath of supernovae. However, these 36 pixels are far from ordinary. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188802","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}