CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -X-Ray Vision and Polarized Glasses Unite to Uncover Mysteries of the Universe. A NASA space telescope mission is giving astronomers a whole new way to peer into the universe, allowing us to uncover long-standing mysteries surrounding objects such as black holes.

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA’s new X-ray space observatory is one of its kind and is called the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Chandra, which is named after Nobel prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, orbits up to 200 times higher above Earth than the Hubble-about a third of the distance to the moon! Chandra is the third in NASA’s series of four great observatories designed to explore the universe from Earth’s orbit.

Detailed explanation-5: -On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched, carried by the Space Shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. About a month later, on Aug. 26, 1999, the first powerful images from Chandra were provided to the public.