X‐ray optics and telescope mirror technology form the backbone of high-energy astrophysical research, enabling the capture and precise imaging of celestial X‐ray sources. Advances in the fabrication ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

cosine and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed the next stage of the development contract regarding Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) X-ray mirrors for the Athena mission. This step aims to further ...

Tokyo, Japan – A team led by scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created unprecedentedly lightweight optics for X-ray space telescopes, breaking the traditional trade-off between ...

Scientists have developed a ground-breaking achromatic lens for X-rays. This allows the X-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point even if they have different wavelengths. The new lens ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort ...

Abstract: X-ray astronomy is a product of the space age. Possible only from viewing platforms above the atmosphere, the first celestial X-ray source other than the Sun was discovered just over sixty ...