The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD
High definition views of Chandra's exciting science Cassiopeia A is the 300-year-old remnant created by the supernova explosion of a massive star. Each Great Observatory image highlights different characteristics of the remnant.
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A Tour of Black Hole Seeds
The new results suggest that at least some of the ...
The new results suggest that at least some of the supermassive black holes in the early Universe formed through this direct collapse method.
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A Tour of Tycho's Supernova Remnant
In modern times, astronomers have observed the debris field from ...
In modern times, astronomers have observed the debris field from this explosion - what is now known as Tycho's supernova remnant - with many telescopes including the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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A Tour of Galaxy Clusters
A new study tries to tackle the questions surrounding dark ...
A new study tries to tackle the questions surrounding dark energy by examining properties of X-ray emission from galaxy clusters.
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A Tour of Comets ISON and PanSTARRS
Recently, astronomers have performed such a study using observations with ...
Recently, astronomers have performed such a study using observations with Chandra of two comets, named ISON and PanSTARRS.
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A Tour of G1.9+0.3
A little more than a century ago, as seen from ...
A little more than a century ago, as seen from the Earth, a star exploded near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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A Tour of Jupiter
A new study using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory has ...
A new study using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory has shown that storms from the Sun are triggering auroras in X-ray light.
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A Tour of Frontier Fields
Two of these Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, going by their ...
Two of these Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, going by their abbreviated names, are MACS J0416 and MACS J0717.
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A Tour of B3 0727+409
Astronomers have used Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet ...
Astronomers have used Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the Universe.
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A Tour of Pictor A
The Universe produces phenomena that often surpass what science fiction ...
The Universe produces phenomena that often surpass what science fiction can conjure.
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A Tour of IDCS J1426.5+3508
New X-ray data from Chandra confirmed that IDCS J1426 was ...
New X-ray data from Chandra confirmed that IDCS J1426 was indeed enormous, weighing in at a whopping 500 trillion times the mass of our Sun.
