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Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
A Quick Look at the Teacup (03-14-2019)
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.
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-- Storm Rages in Cosmic Teacup
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.
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-- Storm Rages in Cosmic Teacup
A Quick Look at NGC 3079 Superbubbles (02-28-2019)
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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-- NGC 3079: Galactic Bubbles Play Cosmic Pinball with Energetic Particles
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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-- NGC 3079: Galactic Bubbles Play Cosmic Pinball with Energetic Particles
A Quick Look at Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass? (02-14-2019)
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.
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-- Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass?
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.
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-- Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass?
A Quick Look at the Dark Energy Quasar Survey (01-29-2019)
Dark energy, a proposed force or energy that permeates all space and accelerates the Universe's expansion, may vary over time.
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-- Astronomers Find Dark Energy May Vary Over Time
Dark energy, a proposed force or energy that permeates all space and accelerates the Universe's expansion, may vary over time.
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-- Astronomers Find Dark Energy May Vary Over Time
A Quick Look at Cygnus A (01-10-2019)
A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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-- Cygnus A: Ricocheting Black Hole Jet Discovered by Chandra
A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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-- Cygnus A: Ricocheting Black Hole Jet Discovered by Chandra
A Quick Look at ASASSN14-li (01-09-2019)
A tidal disruption event in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth.
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-- Shredded Star Leads to Important Black Hole Discovery
A tidal disruption event in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth.
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-- Shredded Star Leads to Important Black Hole Discovery
A Quick Look at Archival Images (12-17-2018)
A collection of images including Chandra data that range in object type and distance.
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-- Chandra Image Collection (Archives 2018)
A collection of images including Chandra data that range in object type and distance.
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-- Chandra Image Collection (Archives 2018)
A Quick Look at Abell 1033 (11-15-2018)
Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise, an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise.
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-- To Boldly Go into Colliding Galaxy Clusters
Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise, an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise.
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-- To Boldly Go into Colliding Galaxy Clusters
A Quick Look at Kes 75 (10-18-2018)
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.
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-- Kes 75: Milky Way's Youngest Pulsar Exposes Secrets of Star's Demise
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.
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-- Kes 75: Milky Way's Youngest Pulsar Exposes Secrets of Star's Demise
A Quick Look at GRB 150101B (10-16-2018)
A distant cosmic relative to the first source that astronomers detected in both gravitational waves and light may have been discovered.
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-- All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered
A distant cosmic relative to the first source that astronomers detected in both gravitational waves and light may have been discovered.
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-- All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered
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Revised: November 06, 2024
