Scientists hope it will be able to see strange, glowing "rays and streamers" in the moon's atmosphere that were first seen in early unmanned lunar photographs and reports from Apollo lunar landing astronauts.
I pictured her in a dimly lit room, trembling before a portfolio of glowing X-rays.
As the shock waves move through the gas they heat it to millions of degrees, producing the glowing X-ray shell.
Hot gas glowing with X-rays should cool, and the dense central gas should cool the fastest.
As the electrons travel around magnetic fields in the shock they lose energy by producing synchrotron emission and glowing in X-rays.
Computer simulations suggest that collisions between spiral galaxies can indeed destroy the spirals' disks, ejecting much of the gas into intergalactic space, thus creating hot intracluster gas now seen glowing in x rays, as implied earlier by Figure 2.20.
The swimmers in the cave look at each other's hands and legs and torsos glowing with UV rays, look down at their bodies and laugh with nervous delight.
A broad region of gas glowing only at x-ray wavelengths marks the crumple zone where a dwarf galaxy is slamming into a much larger mass of stars, a recent study suggests.
The key to the technique was a specially designed mirror that redirected the diffracted x-rays onto a photo detector while filtering out x-rays from the glowing plasma, says Chapman, whose team reported its findings online 12 November in Nature Physics.
Last week, a team led by astrophysicist Marco Tavani of the University of Rome Tor Vergata announced the detection of energetic gamma-ray flashes from the Crab Nebula, while other scientists have also found the x-rays of this glowing remnant of an exploded star to be not as steady as they thought.
