XRISM Mission

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NASA, JAXA XRISM Mission Looks Deeply Into ‘Hidden’ Stellar System

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases flowing within Cygnus X-3, one of the most studied sources in the X-ray sky. Cygnus X-3 is a binary that pairs a rare type of high-mass star with a compact companion — likely a black hole. Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass binary…