Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
A Quick Look at Arp 299 (06-26-2017)
Arp 299 is a system where two galaxies are in the process of merging.
- Related Links:
-- Arp 299: Galactic Goulash
Arp 299 is a system where two galaxies are in the process of merging.
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- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- Arp 299: Galactic Goulash
A Tour of Arp 299 (06-26-2017)
What would happen if you took two galaxies and mixed them together over millions of years?
- Related Links:
-- Arp 299: Galactic Goulash
-- 'A Quick Look' version of this podcast
What would happen if you took two galaxies and mixed them together over millions of years?
- Download Video Podcast (99.6 MB, Runtime: 2:52)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
- Listen to Audio Only
- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- Arp 299: Galactic Goulash
-- 'A Quick Look' version of this podcast
A Tour of XJ1500+0154 (02-06-2017)
Every so often, an object will pass too close to a black hole and be ripped apart by its intense gravitational forces.
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-- Black Hole Meal Sets Record for Length and Size
Every so often, an object will pass too close to a black hole and be ripped apart by its intense gravitational forces.
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- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- Black Hole Meal Sets Record for Length and Size
A Tour of NGC 5128 Flare (10-20-2016)
Astronomers have found a pair of extraordinary objects that dramatically burst in X-rays. This discovery, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, may represent a new class of explosive events.
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-- Mysterious Cosmic Objects Erupting in X-rays Discovered
Astronomers have found a pair of extraordinary objects that dramatically burst in X-rays. This discovery, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, may represent a new class of explosive events.
- Download Video Podcast (68.9 MB, Runtime: 3:04)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
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-- Mysterious Cosmic Objects Erupting in X-rays Discovered
A Tour of IC 2497 (08-12-2016)
A galaxy and a cloud of cool gas located about 680 million light years from Earth.
- Related Links:
-- Cloverleaf Quasar
-- SDSS J1254+0846
A galaxy and a cloud of cool gas located about 680 million light years from Earth.
- Download Video Podcast (68.9 MB, Runtime: 3:00)
- With closed-captions (at YouTube)
- Listen to Audio Only
- Transcript
- Related Links:
-- Cloverleaf Quasar
-- SDSS J1254+0846
Revised: February 02, 2017
