See the cosmos with X-ray vision: Japan’s new Hitomi space telescope
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
An artist's impression of the ASTRO-H telescope.JAXA/Akihiro IkeshitaIn 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...






