{"id":98563,"date":"2019-11-14T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nuclear-fantasies"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:23:56","slug":"nuclear-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nuclear-fantasies","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-fantasies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neutron stars cannot exist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sky was clear\u2014remarkably clear\u2014and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.\u201d \u2014Thomas Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>On June 13, 2012 NASA launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) on a mission to study X-rays in what are thought to be the remnants of supernova explosions, called pulsars. NuStar joins other X-ray space telescopes like Chandra and XMM-Newton, except that it is capable of focusing X-rays to a sharp point, enabling it to \u201csee\u201d energies up to 79,000 electron-volts. That capability makes it more than 100 times more powerful than the other observatories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neutron stars cannot exist. \u201cThe sky was clear\u2014remarkably clear\u2014and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.\u201d \u2014Thomas Hardy. On June 13, 2012 NASA launched the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) on a mission to study X-rays in what are thought to be the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98563","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\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}