"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known as HL Tauri. Results of the observation campaign, presented Feb. 11 on the ...

The X-ray emission from Chandra is presented here in blue and ... The Tarantula spins its web in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, 160,000 light-years ...

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...

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But a composite image containing some of the deepest X-ray images ever taken shows the ... region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Spanning nearly ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long archive of observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, before being unearthed and described in a new paper published in Monthly ...

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the ...