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Just a few months shy of turning 25, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may soon be no more. ... An illustration of Chandra highlights its 2021 discovery of X-rays on Uranus.
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it ...
Joel Kastner, professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, contributed to the 25th anniversary celebration of NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory marked its 25th anniversary with a release of never-before-seen images. But budget cuts may cause the observatory’s days to be numbered.
To understand gravitational lensing and dark matter, James Jee, a professor at Yonsei University, says to think of a pond ...
The Chandra X-ray observatory was launched on July 23, 1999. Since then, it has scoured the universe to look for X-ray emissions from exploded stars, clusters of galaxies and more, according to NASA.
The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, was detected by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and NASA'S Chandra X-ray observatory — the world's most powerful X-ray telescope. The ...
NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don't want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.
For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar eruptions. By Dennis Overbye “The past is never dead,” William ...
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory marked its 25th anniversary with a release of never-before-seen images. But budget cuts may cause the observatory’s days to be numbered.