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200 miles up: First-ever human hand X-ray in space marks a major medical milestone

A new chapter in X-ray history has been written over hundreds of miles above our planet. A medical X-ray of a human hand has been taken successfully in space for the first time. The remarkable feat ...
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VERIFYING the authenticity of a viral firework injury X-ray meme that circulates each 4th of July

Independence Day is just one of many holidays in which Americans launch fireworks late into the night. Some states forbid people from launching their own fireworks, but that doesn’t stop many who have ...
techtimes

NASA X-Ray Telescopes Unveils the Bones of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand

In a Halloween-worthy cosmic revelation, NASA's "spooktacular" Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has ventured into the eerie expanse of MSH 15-52, a celestial structure reminiscent of a ...
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X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Hong Kong/S. Zhang et al.; Radio: ATNF/CSIRO/ATCA; H-alpha: UK STFC/Royal Observatory Edinburgh; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...
Futurism

NASA Shows Off Image That Looks an Awful Lot Like Skeleton Fingers Floating in Space

Astronomers have spotted what looks just like a ghostly skeleton hand floating in outer space some 16,000 light-years from Earth. A spooky image taken by NASA’s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging ...