Where no Telescope Has Gone Before: “Radio telescopes, infrared and ultraviolet

detectors, x-ray and gamma-ray satellites — they’ve

revealed details of a cosmos teeming with exotic

objects like black holes and pulsars that don’t show

up through the eyepiece of an optical telescope.

Indeed, every part of the electromagnetic spectrum

has offered one surprise or another to astronomers.

Now, say astronomers, prepare to be surprised again. Just last month scientists at NASA’s

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) opened a new wavelength band for high-sensitivity

astronomy: ‘hard’ x-rays.” Read more to find out about ‘hard’ x-rays and why this is such a feat. Science@NASA