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Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
Quick Look: Chandra Discoveries in 3D Available on New Platform (05-20-2021)
A collection of 3D computer models and prints is now available on a new platform from the Smithsonian Institution. This will provide greater access to these resources for libraries, museums, scientists, and the public.
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-- Chandra Discoveries in 3D Available on New Platform
A collection of 3D computer models and prints is now available on a new platform from the Smithsonian Institution. This will provide greater access to these resources for libraries, museums, scientists, and the public.
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-- Chandra Discoveries in 3D Available on New Platform
Quick Look: Cassiopeia A (04-21-2021)
Astronomers have discovered an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a result that could be a major advance in understanding how some massive stars explode.
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-- Cassiopeia A: Bubbles With Titanium Trigger Titanic Explosions
Astronomers have discovered an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a result that could be a major advance in understanding how some massive stars explode.
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-- Cassiopeia A: Bubbles With Titanium Trigger Titanic Explosions
Quick Look: M87 in Different Wavelengths of Light (04-14-2021)
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told.
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-- Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told.
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-- Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
Quick Look: Uranus (03-31-2021)
First X-rays From Uranus Discovered
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First X-rays From Uranus Discovered
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Quick Look: Data Sonification: Stellar, Galactic, and Black Hole Tones (03-24-2021)
As part of our ongoing data sonification series, three new images have now been released.
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-- Data Sonification: Stellar, Galactic, and Black Hole
As part of our ongoing data sonification series, three new images have now been released.
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-- Data Sonification: Stellar, Galactic, and Black Hole
Quick Look: PJ352-15 (03-09-2021)
Astronomers may have found the most distant supermassive black hole with a jet detected in X-rays using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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-- Gigantic Jet Spied From Black Hole in Early Universe
Astronomers may have found the most distant supermassive black hole with a jet detected in X-rays using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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-- Gigantic Jet Spied From Black Hole in Early Universe
Quick Look: Supernova 1987A Pulsar Wind Nebula (02-23-2021)
Astronomers have found evidence for the existence of a neutron star at the center of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), which scientists have been seeking for over three decades.
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-- Reclusive Neutron Star May Have Been Found in Famous Supernova Around Old Red Dwarfs
Astronomers have found evidence for the existence of a neutron star at the center of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), which scientists have been seeking for over three decades.
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-- Reclusive Neutron Star May Have Been Found in Famous Supernova Around Old Red Dwarfs
Quick Look: Sagittarius A East (02-08-2021)
Astronomers have found evidence for an unusual type of supernova near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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-- Sagittarius A East: Rare Blast's Remains Discovered in Milky Way Center
Astronomers have found evidence for an unusual type of supernova near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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-- Sagittarius A East: Rare Blast's Remains Discovered in Milky Way Center
Quick Look: Triple Galaxy Mergers (01-14-2021)
When three galaxies collide, what happens to the central black holes growing at the cores of each?
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-- Galaxies Hit Single, Doubles, and a Triple (Growing Black Holes)
When three galaxies collide, what happens to the central black holes growing at the cores of each?
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-- Galaxies Hit Single, Doubles, and a Triple (Growing Black Holes)
Quick Look: Chandra Studies Extraordinary Magnetar (01-08-2021)
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar.
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-- J1818.0-1607: Chandra Studies Extraordinary Magnetar
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar.
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Revised: November 06, 2024
