Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
A Tour of VLA J2130+12 (06-27-2016)
Astronomers have found many black holes both here in our Milky Way galaxy and beyond.
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-- Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population
Astronomers have found many black holes both here in our Milky Way galaxy and beyond.
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-- Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population
A Tour of IC 443 (12-15-2015)
The Jellyfish Nebula, lying about 5,000 light years from Earth, is the remnant of a supernova that occurred over 10,000 years ago.
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-- What Spawned the Jellyfish Nebula?
The Jellyfish Nebula, lying about 5,000 light years from Earth, is the remnant of a supernova that occurred over 10,000 years ago.
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-- What Spawned the Jellyfish Nebula?
Banking X-ray Data for the Future (10-09-2015)
Chandra X-ray Observatory has collected data for over sixteen years on thousands of different objects throughout the Universe.
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-- Banking X-ray Data for the Future
Chandra X-ray Observatory has collected data for over sixteen years on thousands of different objects throughout the Universe.
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-- Banking X-ray Data for the Future
A Tour of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 (07-22-2015)
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour.
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-- Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour.
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-- Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk
A Tour of Circinus X-1 (06-25-2015)
These rings are light echoes, similar to sound echoes that we may experience here on Earth.
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-- X-ray Echoes Pinpoint Location of Distant Flaring Neutron Star
These rings are light echoes, similar to sound echoes that we may experience here on Earth.
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-- X-ray Echoes Pinpoint Location of Distant Flaring Neutron Star
Revised: November 03, 2022
