Picture of the experimental hall showing the target interaction chamber on the left, the collection vacuum tube and the detector on the right side. Credit: Gianluca Gregori. Researchers at the ...

In this video, we explore the Wimshurst machine, an electrostatic device created around 1880 by British inventor James ...

On no planet is making your own X-ray tube a good idea. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to talk about it, because it’s pretty darn cool. And when we say making an X-ra ...

By Michael Irving March 22, 2020 An X-ray image of the Perseus cluster, as captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory NASA/CXC/SAO/E.Bulbul, et al. View 2 Images ...

A FEL creates X-rays by the rapid back-and-forth acceleration of fast-moving electron pulses using a series of magnets called an undulator. These X-rays are emitted at a narrow wavelength and then ...

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization technique that is unfortunately hard for amateurs to perform. The physical o… ...

Object Details discovered x-rays Roentgen, W. C. maker Roentgen, W. C. Description This is one of the first x-ray tubes used by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923), who discovered this new ...

Object Details maker MacAlaster & Wiggin Co. Description (Brief) Cold cathode glass X-ray tube with heavy anode, tungsten target, and “MACALASTER, WIGGIN CO. / BOSTON / TUNGSTEN” and “Pat'd. Dec. 3, ...

Detailed X-ray images of the cosmos are key to answering these questions, and we have just marked 25 years since the launch of NASA’s flagship X-ray Observatory, Chandra, on July 23, 1999.