Tag: Scott Wolk

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Young star cluster found aglow with mysterious X-ray cloud

Known as RCW 38, a star cluster covers a region about 5 light years across. It contains thousands of stars formed less than a million years ago and appears to…

December 18, 2002

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Nation & World
Chandra captures Venus in a whole new light

Researchers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have made the first X-ray images of Venus, Earth’s sister planet.

November 29, 2001

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Mystery of cometary X-rays solved

Comets, which resemble “dirty snow balls” a few miles in diameter, until recently were thought to be too cold to emit X-rays. So the detection of X-rays from comet Hyakutake…

July 27, 2000

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