Ditching mirrors for plastic prisms will make for much smaller, more powerful X-ray telescopes

A new way of bending X-rays raises the prospect of smaller, more powerful X-ray space telescopes. Based on technology originally developed for medical imaging machines, Stacked Prism Lens are being developed by a team led by Mats Danielsson and astrophysicist Mark Pearce at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, that replace conventional mirrors with a network of micro-engineered plastic prisms.

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• KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Space telescope
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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2KoZlrC