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Do you know about NASA - CHIPS Mission. I bet you dont...

CHIPS (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer) is an American (NASA) astrophysics spacecraft that was launched by a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg AFB at 00:45 UT on 13 January 2003. The 60 kg, triaxially-stabilized spacecraft has a spectrograph covering the 9-26 nm wavelength band at a resolution of 0.1 nm, scanning the entire sky in chunks of 5 degree x 27 degree segments during each orbit. The targets are the hot and diffuse nebulae at about a million degrees temperature. The band covers several strong emission lines. Launch Date:   2003-01 13     Launch Vehicle:  Delta II Launch Site:   Vandenberg AFB, United States Mass:   60 kg  CHIPS carried out an all-sky survey of the diffuse background at wavelengths from  90  to 260 Å at a spectral resolution between about λ / 150 and λ / 40, and a spatial resolution of 5 to 15 degrees. CHIPS detected diffuse emission near 170 Å, but this turned out to be associated with the earth’s thin outer atmosphere or its int
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2017 Physics Nobel Prize Winners Announced BARRY BARISH, RAINER WEISS and KIP THORNE

The Nobel Assembly finally  announced the 2017 Nobel Prize Winners in physics to Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Their discovery of Gravitational waves had bringed them in attention since 2016 and they had won many a prizes for it. But this time its the biggest and most respectable prize ie. NOBEL PRIZE.

LIGO has been one of the most succesful project in history of physics and this time all the winners are those who did an outstanding work in making LIGO  a reality and detect the first time ever, THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES.

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