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.
Q&A: Chandra Mission
What is the most distant object Chandra can see, and what type
of object is it?
The most distant objects detected by Chandra so far are
quasars.
The X-rays we see from these objects left the objects about 13
billion years ago, when then age of the universe was a little
over a billion years, and was about one-sixth of its present
size.
