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Selected Chandra Articles & Media HighlightsThis is a sample of the news coverage the Chandra X-ray Observatory has received during this quarter. To read the story and learn about copyright policies, please visit the individual publication's website or your local library.September 2001 Publication: US News & World Report (September 17, 2001; Page 10) Headline: "Backyard Black Hole" Byline: Tim Appenzeller First Sentences: Look up at the shimmering Milky Way from your backyard, and you're gazing toward an immense black hole, millions of times heavier than the Sun. Astronomers suspected its presence from the way stars swirl around the center of our galaxy; now, thanks to NASA's orbiting X-ray telescope, they are sure. Publication: New York Times (September 11, 2001; Page 4, Section F) Headline: "X-Ray Orbiter Becomes a Particle Physics Experiment" Byline: James Glanz First Sentences: Scientists launched NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory so that, as the name implies, the observatory could probe regions in the cosmos that are hot or violent enough to emit X-rays, which are blocked by Earth's atmosphere. Two years later, Chandra is looking a lot like an orbiting particle-physics experiment.
Correspondent: Miles O'Brien Selected Transcript: Astronomers working with the Chandra X-ray observatory said they have fresh evidence that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. And get this, they caught it feeding. This image shows an X-ray flare shooting from Sagittarius A star, a source of radio waves that scientists think is associated with the black hole. And an X-ray flare is exactly what astronomers would expect to happen when a black hole sucks in matter. Publication: Los Angeles Times (September 6, 2001; Page 1) Headline: "Black Hole Is Seen in Action for First Time" Byline: Usha Lee McFarling First Sentence: A powerful X-ray telescope has captured the super massive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy in the act--the act of snacking. August 2001 Publication: New Scientist (August 25, 2001; Page 35) Headline: The Shape of Things to Come Byline: Stuart Clark First sentence: "Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe, so huge that individual galaxies are only specks of light within them." Publication: The New York Times (August 14, 2001; Section F, Page 3) Headline: Chandra Captures Clues to a Galaxy First Sentence: "NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transmitted a new picture of the galaxy Centaurus A, which, at 11 million miles away, is relatively near the Earth."
Headline: Milky Way's X-ray Glow Comes from Hot Plasma Gas, Team Finds First Sentence: "Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered that the Milky Way's X-ray glow comes from diffuse plasma gas which has temperatures of tens of millions of degrees Celsius."
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