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China launches space telescope

Beijing: China on Thursday launched its first ever space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts. The 2.5-tonne Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) was launched via a Long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gobi Desert at 11 a.m., reports Xinhua news agency. The HXMT, dubbed Insight, was sent into an […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Chinese space telescope to observe pulsars in Milky Way

Beijing: China is set to launch a space telescope, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), to observe pulsars in the galaxy of Milky Way, according to scientists. “We are still not clear about the interior of pulsars,” Zhang Shuangnan, lead scientist of HXMT and director of the Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics of the Chinese […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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