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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…