Results for "X-Ray Mega Airport (Television series)"
- SI History Chronology
X-ray Satellite Launched with SAO Payload
- Date: August 12, 1977
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Link Love: 12/3/2010
- Date: December 3, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="IC 4970 and NGC 6872: Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole, X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/M.Machacek; Optical: ESO/VLT; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech."][/caption] I’m sure you’re familiar with beauties, like the one above, from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Well, apparently, with “a basic understanding of astronomy data & image
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New Commons Photos: The Destiny of a Galaxy
- Date: August 11, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: In the past week, a series of six more images from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray team were uploaded to the Flickr Commons. Incidentally, they are all images of supernovas and black holes. Visualizing black holes is a challenge (at least for me) as the term conjures up images in my own head of silent, black infinity. But luckily for us (and as you
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Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude
- Date: December 31, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of
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Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)
- Date: June 1, 2009
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Upon Closer Inspection . . .
- Date: December 9, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3532" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Lorgnette Humaine, Scan from The English Mechanic, 1897 drawing of an invention using X-Rays to scan luggage, courtesy of Flickr user Mark Wahl, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A week or so ago, shoes off and stuck in the slow moving security check line at an airport, I became fixated as I
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Link Love: 8/27/2010
- Date: August 27, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="167" caption="The Mona Lisa, between 1503 and 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on poplar, The Louvre Museum."][/caption] Scientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s beguiling smile by using x-ray technology [via More Intelligent Life]. And while we're at it, scientists use UV light to reveal how awesomely gaudy the colors of
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This Day in SI History - november | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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- Document
SIA2008-0870
Alexandre Dauvillier (1882-1979)
- Date: 1932
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007416, Giacconi, Riccardo, Riccardo Giacconi Papers, 1955- 2002
- Date: 1955 1955-2002 1955- 2002
- Creator: Giacconi, Riccardo
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 10-142, Giacconi, Riccardo, Riccardo Giacconi Papers, circa 1958-1992, 2008
- Date: 1958 1958-2008 circa 1958-1992, 2008
- Creator: Giacconi, Riccardo
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
