Astronomers Discover Enormous Arms of Hot Gas in the Coma Cluster of Galaxies
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton, researchers have discovered long arms of hot gas in the Coma cluster of galaxies. These arms span…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton, researchers have discovered long arms of hot gas in the Coma cluster of galaxies. These arms span…
This composite image from NASA’s NuSTAR and the European Southern Observatory shows the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253. The Sculptor galaxy is seen…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found that less than 1% of the material in the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole’s gravitational grasp…
A new study reveals that a giant cloud of superheated gas, which is about 6 million degrees, is likely the result of a collision between…
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Observatory has revealed the first exoplanet caught passing in front of its…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope, astronomers studied NGC 2392 and two other planetary nebulas with hot gas in their center,…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered new details about the remains of a supernova that is the most recent, in Earth’s time frame,…
Using data from 152 observations of Chandra spanning over 13 years, researchers discovered twenty-six new stellar-mass black hole candidates in Andromeda, also known as M31….
NuSTAR data reveals that the once active supermassive black hole at the center of the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is now dormant,…
A newly published study suggests that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
New data has revealed that magnetars may be more diverse, and common, than previously thought. Researchers believe these findings with help them better understand supernova…
By combining X-ray, optical, and radio data, astronomers get a full picture of the superheated gas swirling around the black hole at the center of…
A burst of star formation that lasted for at least 200 million years may be responsible for a cloud of hot gas, which contains the…
A newly released image of SN 1006 provides new details about the remains of an exploded star that was witnessed from Earth over a millennium…
New Chandra observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud have resulted in the first detection of X-ray emission from young stars with masses similar to our…
Using data from Chandra, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, scientists made one of the most reliable estimates of the relation between the…
A group of astronomers used the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites to study the X-ray variability of the active galaxy NGC 4507, finding that significant variations…
By tracing the distribution and amounts of different elements in the stellar debris field, scientists were able to compare Chandra data to theoretical models of…