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Luxel Corporation was founded in Santa Barbara, … Read More
This coronagraph image shows a coronal mass ejection escaping … Read More
Europe’s JUICE spacecraft will be the first satellite to orbit a moon other than … Read More
The US Department of Energy shared a huge advancement that researchers have been working toward for decades and we at Luxel are proud to say our LUXFilm® Polyimide Windows were used in four places on the record-setting target. … Read More
Luxel’s filters on NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are partnering up with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to reveal some new iconic images for Stephan’s Quintet, Cartwheel Galaxy, SMACS 0723.3–7327, and NGC 3324, The … Read More
Photo credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB).
It is only April, but this HAS to be the … Read More
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches NOAA’s GOES-T satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 1, 2022. (Photo … Read More
Photo credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA
On Thursday morning, SpaceX launched a rocket from Kennedy Space Center to send IXPE (International X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) … Read More
Photo credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory (NASA)
Old mission, new exciting news from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Astronomers have announced evidence … Read More
PHOTO: On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at the National Ignition Facility put researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, achieving a … Read More
PHOTO: This photo shows the Sun seen by AIA in 304 Angstrom light in 2021 before degradation correction (left) and with corrections … Read More
Neuroscientists from multiple institutions have wrapped up a five-year, multimillion-dollar project with the release of a high-resolution 3-D map showing the connections between 200,000 cells in a clump of mouse brain about as big as a grain of sand.
Luxel is proud that … Read More
The Allen Institute built a high-throughput, automated electron microscopy pipeline and took ~125,000,000 pictures of a tiny sample of brain tissue to reveal its fine wiring.
For decades, researchers used a process called serial-section electron microscopy to aid their understanding of the brain. This type … Read More
During a recent visit to Friday Harbor, Congressman Rick Larsen and the Economic Development Council of San Juan County stopped by to learn about Luxel and how we have been impacted by the pandemic.
Photo: Rick Larsen Facebook
Luxel is honored to have our EUV filters onboard this exciting mission! Our 150-nanometer thick aluminum filters are used on the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) Telescope for entrance and focal plane filters on two different channels. Engineering Model filters first shipped in 2010, and the final Flight Models shipped in … Read More