NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a mysterious flash of X-rays in the Chandra Deep…
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA’s flagship space telescope for observing the universe in high-energy X-ray light, offering unparalleled insight into some of the most extreme and energetic phenomena in the cosmos. Launched in 1999, Chandra has revealed detailed views of supernova remnants, black holes, neutron stars, galaxy clusters, and dark matter through its ultra-sensitive imaging and spectroscopy. Its observations have transformed our understanding of the life cycles of stars, the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, and the structure of the universe. Explore this page for the latest discoveries, mission updates, and cosmic insights from Chandra.
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA’s NuSTAR and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact…
This composite image shows Supernova 1987A, one of the brightest supernovae detected since the invention…
By using data from telescopes, astronomers — and the public — can explore SN 1987A…
A trio of X-ray observatories has captured a remarkable event in their data: a decade-long…
NASA’s NuSTAR satellite reveals new clues to why supernova SN 2014C dramatically changed in appearance…
New X-ray images from Chandra have shown distinctly different shapes for the structures around two…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, a team of…
An unparalleled image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory gives astronomers the best look yet at…
Using several telescopes including Chandra, astronomers have shown that a galaxy in the early Universe…
A newly published study reveals that the supernova explosion that formed either the black hole…
By combining data from Chandra, VLT, and several other telescopes, astronomers reveal that the dimming…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has modeled the detailed shape…
Using data from both Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers discovered two flaring objects in two different…
Astronomers have discovered a “wandering” black hole in the outer regions of a galaxy about…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has finished its Frontier Fields observations and astronomers are working to…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope along with the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory,…
Using Chandra, a team of astronomers has detected X-rays from Pluto for the first time.…