New Image of SN 1006 Provides New Details About the Remains of an Exploded Star
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…
Chandra X-ray Observatory News
Observations Reveal Young Stars With Masses Similar to Our Sun Outside the Milky Way
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…
Chandra Data Helps Detail the Interior Structure of Neutron Stars
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…
Diagnosing the X-Ray Variability in Active Galaxy NGC 4507
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…
Data Suggests Rare Explosion Created Milky Way’s Youngest Black Hole
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…
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Reveals Superbubble DEM L50
This new composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows superbubble DEM L50, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years…
New Chandra Video Shows the Vela Pulsar in Action
A new video from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that is 12 miles in diameter, located about 1,000 light-years…
Survey Reveals “Ultramassive” Black Holes Weighing 40 billion Times the Mass of the Sun
A new survey of 18 giant black holes shows that the biggest black holes may be even bigger than previously thought, with several weighing between…
Survey of Galaxies Reveals Supermassive Black Holes
Using data from Chandra observations of 62 nearby galaxies and data from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey, scientists have shown that 37 of the…
Spherical Phase of Planetary Nebula Abell 30
These new images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, which is located 5,500 light-years away from Earth, show one of the clearest views ever obtained…
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,…
Distant Quasar Ejects 2 Million Light-Year Long Jet of Cosmic Material
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…
Chandra Shows Halo of Hot Gas Surrounding the Milky Way
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…
A Superbubble in Star Cluster NGC 1929
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…
The Newly Discovered Phoenix Cluster Is Breaking Cosmic Records
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…
Astronomers Detect X-rays From the Remains of Supernova SN 1957D
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…
Accretion Around TW Hydrae – A Relatively Young Star
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…
In McNeil’s Nebula, Protostar V1647 Ori Flaunts its X-ray Spots
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…
