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This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," that may be acting as a black hole "delivery system." Credit: NASA ...
Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...
A radio glow surrounds PLCKG 287.0+32.9, seen here in a composite image with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope (purple) and the MeerKAT radio array (orange).
A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...
Astronomers used Chandra and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to study this black hole and its jet at a period they call "cosmic noon," which occurred about 3 billion years after the ...
Global resolution: Radio telescope network captures image of distant black hole jet by Chalmers University of Technology edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that an entire galaxy cluster is wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.
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 ...