{"id":174292,"date":"2025-12-08T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174292\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:28:08","slug":"xrism-finds-chlorine-potassium-in-cas-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174292\/","title":{"rendered":"XRISM Finds Chlorine, Potassium in Cas A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant glows in X-ray, visible, and infrared light in this Jan. 8, 2024, image that combines data from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble, Webb, and Spitzer space telescopes. A study by the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft has made the first-ever X-ray detections of chlorine and potassium from the wreckage; a paper about the result was published Dec. 4, 2025, in Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/xrism\/nasa-jaxa-xrism-finds-elemental-bounty-in-supernova-remnant\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this discovery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical: NASA\/ESA\/STScI; IR: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI\/Milisavljevic et al., NASA\/JPL\/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/J. Schmidt and K. Arcand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant glows in X-ray, visible, and infrared light in this Jan. 8, 2024, image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-174292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}