A New View of Centaurus A
This new composite image of Centaurus A was created with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and…
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Amateur Astronomers Combine Data to Reveal New Images of Galaxies
Amateur astronomers and astrophotographers have combined their optical data with the data from some of the world’s most sophisticated space telescopes to reveal new images…
Astronomers Detect Dramatic Flow of Rapidly Moving Molecular Gas in Abell 1835
Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ALMA radio array, astronomers have detected a flow of about ten billion solar masses of rapidly moving molecular…
Supernova Remnant G352.7-0.1 Displays Several Unusual Properties
Astronomers have discovered that supernova remnant G352.7-0.1 is sweeping up a remarkable amount of material as it expands, an amount equivalent to about 45 times…
Hubble Measures “El Gordo” Galaxy Cluster, Bigger Than Previously Thought
Researchers have measured the mass of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster, calculating the cluster’s mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the…
Astronomers Measure Distant Black Hole’s Spin
Using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar that is located 6 billion light…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy ESO 137-001. The spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 looks like a dandelion caught in…
IGR J11014-6103: A Supersonic Pulsar with a Tail 37 Light Years Long
Astronomers have discovered a pulsar that is moving between 2.5 million and 5 million miles per hour with a tail that stretches for 37…
Archived Chandra Data Provide a New Image of Centaurus A
Using archived data, astronomers have put together a new Chandra image of Centaurus A and new results on the black holes and neutron stars in…
Chandra Reveals Shock Heated Gas in Colliding Galaxies
Using images and spectra from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers discovered evidence of shock-heated gas moving at speeds of about 2200 kilometers per second in…
Swift Reveals Before and After Images of Supernova SN 2014J
Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope shows before and after images of supernova SN 2014J, which occurred 12 million light-years away in galaxy M82. An exceptionally close stellar…
Chandra Reveals the Extreme Power of a Distant Black Hole
Astronomers reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. Located in the center of galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021, the black hole is 3.9 billion…
Chandra Reveals a Black Hole Destroying a Star in a Dwarf Galaxy
While combing through several years of Chandra data, researchers discovered a black hole destroying a star in the galaxy cluster Abell 1795. A bright, long…
Astronomers View Eclipsing Double White Dwarf System
Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope present optical and X-ray observations of two tidally distorted, extremely low-mass white dwarfs (WDs) with…
NASA Image of the Day – Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
The NASA image of the day shows the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy M81. At the center of spiral galaxy M81…
Astronomers Find New Evidence of a High-Energy Jet in the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Using data from Chandra and the VLA, astronomers uncovered new evidence for the presence of a jet of high-energy particles blasting out of the Milky…
3D Viewer Offers a New Look at Cassiopeia A
Using data from Chandra, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities, scientists have created new three-dimensional (3D) viewer that will allow users to see the…
A Two-Minute Tour of Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxy M60-UCD1
This two minute NASA video details M60-UCD1, an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a mass about 200 million times that of our sun. Two-Minute Tour: An…