Blacker than black: NASA engineers developing material to help gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 14:34
in Astronomy & Space
Black is black, right? Not so, according to a team of NASA engineers now developing a blacker-than pitch material that will help scientists gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements or observe currently unseen astronomical objects, like Earth-sized planets in orbit around other stars.
