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 ...

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

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet.

ABSTRACT The Chandra X‐Ray Observatory (CXO), the X‐ray component of NASA’s Great Observatories, was launched on 1999 July 23 by the space shuttle Columbia. After satellite systems activation, the ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

The XRISM satellite’s remarkable energy resolution ... especially, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, both launched in 1999, can produce much higher-resolution images of the intra-cluster ...

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 ...

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 ...