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High definition views of Chandra's exciting science
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar.
Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
A new trio of examples of 'data sonification' from NASA missions provides a new method to enjoy an arrangement of cosmic objects.
Astronomers using Chandra have found a bubble of ultra-hot gas at the center of a planetary nebula in our galaxy called IC 4593.
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A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are planets that orbit the most common type of stars in the Galaxy?
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What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common?
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
By turning Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer images into sounds, a new project allows users to 'listen' to the center of the Milky Way and other objects.
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Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. From radio waves to gamma rays, this multiwavelength approach to astronomy is crucial to getting a complete understanding of objects in space.
A new sequence of Chandra images, taken over nearly a decade and a half, captures motion in Kepler's supernova remnant.
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another.
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By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline for when stars like the Sun start blasting high-energy radiation into space.
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By combining data from telescopes with supercomputer simulations and virtual reality (or "VR"), a new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light.
Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects.
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell the tale through exclamations of X-rays.
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One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton is challenging that basic notion.
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made one of the first experimental tests of string theory, a set of models intended to tie together all known forces, particles, and interactions.
Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe in a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away.
Astronomers have spotted a double star system is flip-flopping between two alter egos using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.
These six visualizations represent work to explore rich datasets from powerful telescopes, like Chandra, by developing three-dimensional simulations.
Astronomers have shown that the famous black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles faster than 99% of the speed of light using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined X-ray, visible, and infrared wavelengths to create a 3D representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula.
Two groups of galaxies located about 380 million light years from Earth are slamming into each other at about 4 million miles per hour.
Astronomers have uncovered a black hole that may have sparked the birth of stars over a phenomenal distance of more than a million light years and across multiple galaxies.
Scientists have found stars forming at a furious rate in the Phoenix galaxy cluster. The supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy clusters usually stifles star formation, but the one in Phoenix is not.
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A Tour of a Collision Between Four Galaxy Clusters in Abell 1758
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When two pairs of galaxy clusters collide, the result is not four separate objects, but one giant galaxy cluster.
A new image of the Tycho supernova remnant from Chandra reveals an intriguing pattern of bright clumps and fainter holes giving clues about its origin.
A study using data from Chandra and other telescopes provides the strongest evidence yet for three supermassive black holes on a collision course.
Astronomers found X-ray bursts repeating about every nine hours coming from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy GSN 069.
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A Tour of the Latest Look at "First Light" from Chandra
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Over its two decades in space, Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured many spectacular images of cosmic phenomena. But perhaps its most iconic is the supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A.
Found at a time only about 850 million years after the Big Bang, this black hole could help us better understand an important epoch in the history of the Universe.
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First Light: Celebrating 20 Years of Chandra Observatory
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A scientific and engineering marvel, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spent two decades (so far) exploring the cosmos unlike any other telescope. What it has found will astound you.
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A Tour of Chandra Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, an assembly of new images has been released.
Astronomers have deployed a new technique to measure the spin of five supermassive black holes.
Does the Gas in Galaxy Clusters Flow Like Honey? Researchers used a deep Chandra dataset to study how the hot gas in the cluster behaves.
A galaxy that has been isolated for billions of years has been found to have more dark matter in its core than expected.
Scientists have found evidence that pairs of stars have been kicked out of their host galaxies.
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A Tour of a New Signal for a Neutron Star Collision Discovered
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A bright blast of X-rays from a source in a distant galaxy has led astronomers to a fascinating discovery.
A new visualization provides viewers with an immersive, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition view of the center of our Galaxy.
Fancy a cup of cosmic tea? This one isn't as calming as the ones on Earth. In a galaxy hosting a structure nicknamed the "Teacup," a galactic storm is raging.
The galaxy NGC 3079, located about 67 million light years from Earth, contains two /"superbubbles/" unlike anything here on our planet.
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A Tour of Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass?
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Astronomers have used Chandra to possibly identify the location of a third of the normal matter in the Universe created in the first billion years or so after the Big Bang.
Dark energy, a proposed force or energy that permeates all space and accelerates the Universe's expansion, may vary over time.
A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
A tidal disruption event in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth.
A collection of images including Chandra data that range in object type and distance.
Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise, an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise.
Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy. This result could provide astronomers new information about how some stars end their lives.
