Probing a Nearby Stellar Cradle: Star Cluster Cygnus OB2
The above composite image of star cluster Cygnus OB2, which is located about 5,000 light-years from Earth, contains X-rays from Chandra, infrared data from Spitzer,…
The above composite image of star cluster Cygnus OB2, which is located about 5,000 light-years from Earth, contains X-rays from Chandra, infrared data from Spitzer,…
This extended jet of cosmic materials, traveling near light speed, emerged from a distant galaxy. The flow is almost 2 million light-years long, at least…
The Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided evidence that our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas with a radius of…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Max-Planck-ESO telescope, this composite image shows a superbubble in NGC 1929, which…
Located about 5.7 billion light years from Earth in the Phoenix constellation, the newly discovered galaxy cluster, officially known as SPT-CLJ2344-4243, has been dubbed the…
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
While studying TW Hydrae, a relatively young star in the TW Hydrae stellar association, astronomers were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct…
Located about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion, protostar V1647 Ori gave astronomers the first direct evidence that a protostar surges in X-ray activity…
Using three different telescopes, scientists found evidence of a pulsar moving at a speed between 5.4 million and 6.5 million miles per hour at a…
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that a supermassive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of at least…
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain why some supernova explosions are more powerful than others, supporting the idea that some of…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists discovered a new ultraluminous X-ray source located in spiral galaxy M83, which is roughly 15 million light years from…
By the standards of space-based astronomy, NASA’s new NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope that will be launched later this month has a modest budget…
Researchers recently made two unanticipated findings when making observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. They clocked the fastest wind ever seen blowing off a disk…
Astronomers believe that the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* located at the center of the Milky Way may be destroying a large number…
A new study of the X-shaped radio galaxy NGC 326, which will be published on February 20th in Astrophysics Journal, tries to explain their morphology…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made a rare discovery when looking deep into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Spotted was a population of rare blue stars in…