XRISM Launch

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Video imagery:

·        XRISM launch video: JAXA.

·       Close up images of XMA mirror assemblies for XRISM satellite: Taylor Mickal/NASA.

·       Composite radio/visible light/X-ray image of M87 with black hole jet: EHT, ALMA, NASA/Hubble, NASA/Chandra.

·       X-ray image of the Crab Nebula: (IXPE: NASA), (Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO) Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand & L. Frattare

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Text, News From The Universe. 

 

Text, XRISM Launch. September 11, 2023. 

 

A spaceship sits on a launchpad next to a body of water. 

 

Text, The satellite XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) launched from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on September 7, 2023. 

 

XRISM's engines ignite and the ship lifts off. 

 

Text, The mission, led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), is set to provide astronomers with a revolutionary look at the X-ray sky. 

 

XRISM flies up into the sky, leaving a massive plume of smoke in its wake. 

 

Text, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center developed twin X-ray Mirror Assemblies for XRISM , each containing 1,624 aluminum mirror segments. 

 

A circular X-ray Mirror Assembly lined with closely-placed concentric mirror segments. 

 

Text, XRISM detects high-energy X-rays that will provide new information about the universe's most energetic objects, like black hole particle jets and neutron stars. 

 

A violet-colored black hole with radiating purple light in the black expanse of space. A plume of purple light spills from its center. 

 

Text, This news was brought to you in part by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. 

 

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