Coloring the Universe - Part 2 (08-04-2015)
Last time, we looked at the electromagnetic spectrum. This time we'll look at how astronomical images are made.

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Coloring the Universe - Part 1 (08-03-2015)
An astronomer's toolkit consists of many kinds of light, across the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Chandra's Sweet Sixteen (07-28-2015)
This year, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates its own "sweet 16."

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A Tour of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 (07-22-2015)
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour.

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A Tour of NGC 1333 (07-07-2015)
While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.

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