Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
Quick Look: New Stellar Danger to Planets Identified by NASA's Chandra (04-20-2023)
Astronomers have identified a new threat to life on planets like Earth: a phase during which intense X-rays from exploded stars can affect planets over 100 light-years away.
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Astronomers have identified a new threat to life on planets like Earth: a phase during which intense X-rays from exploded stars can affect planets over 100 light-years away.
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Quick Look: Chandra Determines What Makes a Galaxy's Wind Blow (03-29-2023)
Data from Chandra show the effects of powerful winds launched from the center of a nearby galaxy.
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Data from Chandra show the effects of powerful winds launched from the center of a nearby galaxy.
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Quick Look: Chandra Helps Astronomers Discover a Surprisingly Lonely Galaxy (03-08-2023)
A distant – and lonely – galaxy appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former companion galaxies.
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A distant – and lonely – galaxy appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former companion galaxies.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Discovers Giant Black Holes on Collision Course (02-22-2023)
A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has tracked two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses.
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A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has tracked two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses.
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Quick Look: Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters (01-30-2023)
Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and a trio of radio telescopes are helping astronomers sort out what is happening in this jumbled scene.
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-- Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters
Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and a trio of radio telescopes are helping astronomers sort out what is happening in this jumbled scene.
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Revised: November 03, 2022
