{"id":22447,"date":"2016-02-20T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/japan-launches-observatory-to-study-black-holes-and-dying-stars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:52:04","slug":"japan-launches-observatory-to-study-black-holes-and-dying-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/japan-launches-observatory-to-study-black-holes-and-dying-stars","title":{"rendered":"Japan Launches Observatory To Study Black Holes And Dying Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astronaut David Saint-Jacques explains the ASTRO-H mission\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvqggHfzfgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Japan is studying the black holes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This week the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched a new space observatory designed to study black holes, dying stars and the history of galaxy clusters. The X-ray Astronomy Satellite, known as ASTRO-H, will be able to detect X-rays more than 10 times fainter than its telescope predecessor, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/suzaku\">Suzaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ASTRO-H was launched on the Japanese launch vehicle H-IIA from Tanegashima Launch Center on Wednesday, February 17<sup>th<\/sup> at 3:45 am EST. Within hours, the satellite deployed its solar arrays and was functioning normally.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tradition for Japan\u2019s astronomy satellites to be given a provisional name before launch and be renamed once they\u2019re in orbit. After its successful launch, JAXA announced ASTRO-H was renamed to Hitomi, a Japanese word that refers to an eye\u2019s pupil, which is like an aperture collecting light for an eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/02\/20\/japan-launches-observatory-to-study-black-holes-and-dying-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is studying the black holes. This week the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched a new space observatory designed to study black holes, dying stars and the history of galaxy clusters. The X-ray Astronomy Satellite, known as ASTRO-H, will be able to detect X-rays more than 10 times fainter than its telescope predecessor, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62756,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions\/62756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}