An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” describes a research on the so-called Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB). A team of researchers led by Fiona Harrison of Caltech in Pasadena used NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope to distinguish a good part of the X-ray emission coming from supermassive black holes.
An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” describes a research of an object called CX330 which for some years has been mysterious and was later found to be a young star. A group of researchers led by Chris Britt of Texas Tech University used data collected from NASA’s Chandra and WISE space telescopes and others to determine its nature. It remains unclear why CX330 is so isolated.
A little while ago the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was captured by the robotic arm Canadarm2 on the International Space Station. Jeff Williams, assisted by his colleague Kate Rubins, managed the operation then started moving the Dragon to the berthing point at the Harmony module. The cargo spacecraft blasted off last Monday.
A few hours ago SpaceX Dragon spacecraft blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in its CRS-9 (Cargo Resupply Service 9) mission, also referred to as SPX-9. After almost ten minutes it separated successfully from the rocket’s last stage and went en route. This is the ninth mission to send the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with various cargoes and then return to Earth, again with various cargoes.
An article published in “Journal of Geophysical Research” describes a research that may have found new traces of liquid water on Mars. A team of researchers led by Matthew Chojnacki of the University of Arizona examined images from NASA’s MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) space probe’s HiRise instrument, finding what look like wet sand strips in some regions of the Valles Marineris canyon network.
