The long relationships between stars and the planets around them — including the Sun and the Earth — may be even more complex than previously…
Watch as the blast wave from an exploded star moves at nearly 9 million miles per hour. Astronomers captured this movement by combining data spanning…
How do flares, or outbursts, from young stars affect planets that orbit around them? The largest study of star-forming regions in X-rays using NASA’s Chandra…
Scientists have coordinated observations of many of the world’s most powerful telescopes of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. In April 2019, the…
A new panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of Milky Way. This new survey builds on previous Chandra observations, stitching…
How hospitable are red dwarf stars, the most common and long-lasting stars in our Galaxy? Researchers used Chandra and Hubble data to look at the…
Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step…
Since astronomers captured the bright explosion of a star on February 24, 1987, researchers have been searching for the squashed stellar core that should have…
Astronomers used Chandra to detect an important type of titanium in the supernova remnant Cas A. This titanium is predicted to form in bubbles that…
Astronomers have announced the first detection of X-rays from Uranus. Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an ice giant planet in the outer…
Astronomical data from three new objects have been translated into sound as part of a data sonification project. The Chandra Deep Field, the Cat’s Eye…
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles from a supermassive black hole in the early Universe, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory….
Astronomers may have discovered the most distant jet emitting X-rays. The source of this jet is a rapidly growing supermassive black hole, or quasar, located…
What remains of the star that exploded just outside our galaxy in 1987? Debris has obscured scientists’ view, but two of NASA’s X-ray telescopes have…
Astronomers now have evidence from two X-ray telescopes (Chandra and NuSTAR) for a key component of a famous supernova remnant. Supernova 1987A was discovered on…
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Despite searching with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers…
Astronomers recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar yet. J1818.0-1607 is located about 21,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy….
Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as J1818.0-1607, is located about 21,000 light years away…