An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
A collection of multimedia, illustrations & animations, a glossary, FAQ & more.
A collection of illustrations, animations and video.
Chandra discoveries in an audio/video format.
Chandra Images by Date: 2010
20 Dec 10
A galaxy 920 million light years away from Earth.
20 Dec 10
A galaxy 1.1 billion light years away from Earth.
14 Dec 10
A supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which lies about 160,000 light years from Earth.
08 Dec 10
The central elliptical galaxy in a group located about 105 million light years from Earth.
15 Nov 10
A supernova that was seen to explode in 1979 from Earth, found in the galaxy M100.
26 Oct 10
A galaxy cluster with a central quasar located about 8 billion light years away.
14 Oct 10
A slowly rotating neutron star with a very weak magnetic field at its surface.
05 Oct 10
A supernova remnant in the Milky Way galaxy.
14 Sep 10
A Sun-like star in its "red giant" phase about 1,000 light years from Earth.
08 Sep 10
A star-forming region 5,000 light years away in the constellation Monoceros.
30 Aug 10
A composite image of the northern part of Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth.
18 Aug 10
A massive galaxy about 50 million light years away in the Virgo Cluster.
05 Aug 10
A pair of colliding galaxies about 62 million light years from Earth.
21 Jul 10
A galaxy harboring a giant black hole about 780 million light years away.
07 Jul 10
A galaxy about 12.7 million light years away containing a so-called microquasar.
30 Jun 10
A source in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field thought to be at a distance of almost 4 billion light years.
09 Jun 10
A binary star system about 800 light years from Earth.
25 May 10
(Andromeda Galaxy)
A supermassive black hole in the center of Andromeda
24 May 10
A supernova remnant located in the Large Magellenic Cloud
11 May 10
A massive "wall" of galaxies at a distance of 400 million light years from Earth.
29 Apr 10
The nearest starburst galaxy to Earth at a distance of 12 million light years.
14 Apr 10
A cluster of galaxies about 614 million light years from Earth.
29 Mar 10
A supernova remnant about 20,000 light years from Earth.
03 Mar 10
A spiral galaxy about 50 million light years from Earth containing a supermassive black hole.
17 Feb 10
(Andromeda Galaxy)
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
17 Feb 10
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
17 Feb 10
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
17 Feb 10
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
17 Feb 10
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
17 Feb 10
One of six galaxies in a study to examine properties of Type Ia supernovas.
03 Feb 10
A system containing a pair of quasars about 4.6 billion light years away.
21 Jan 10
A galaxy plunging into the cluster Abell 3627 about 230 million light years away.
05 Jan 10
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
04 Jan 10
An elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster that contains an ultraluminous X-ray source.