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The mouse that soared

Astronomers have used an X-ray image to make the first detailed study of the behavior of high-energy particles around a fast moving pulsar. The image, from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, shows the shock wave created as a pulsar plows through interstellar space at supersonic speed. These results will provide insight into theories for the production of powerful winds of matter and antimatter by pulsars...
The FITSview program is available free of charge from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

<b>Editor's Note:</b> None of the astronomical imaging programs I have allow me to do simple "blink" comparisons between 2 different images and though this simple FITSview program is far less sophisticated than, say, MaximDL, it does a good basic job of displaying .fit files AND it has a "blink-comparator" feature. Very handy when hunting for singular disparities between images.
NASA Captive Carry Test Prepares for Next X-43A / Hyper-X Flight

Only days after Guinness World Records certified the prior flight of NASA's X-43A hypersonic technology demonstrator aircraft as a world speed record, a full-scale dress rehearsal for the last and even faster flight of the small unpiloted research aircraft is tentatively scheduled to occur on Tuesday, Sept. 7 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
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