Quick Look: A Cosmic Amethyst in a Dying Star (11-12-2020)
Astronomers using Chandra have found a bubble of ultra-hot gas at the center of a planetary nebula in our galaxy called IC 4593.

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Quick Look: Assessing The Habitability of Planets Around Old Red Dwarfs (10-30-2020)
A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are planets that orbit the most common type of stars in the Galaxy?

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Quick Look: Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical for GPS, Seen in Distant Stars (10-22-2020)
What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common?

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Quick Look: Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way (09-22-2020)
By turning Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer images into sounds, a new project allows users to 'listen' to the center of the Milky Way and other objects.

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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Opens Treasure Trove of Cosmic Delights (09-02-2020)
Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. From radio waves to gamma rays, this multiwavelength approach to astronomy is crucial to getting a complete understanding of objects in space.

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Quick Look: Kepler's Supernova Remnant (08-19-2020)
A new sequence of Chandra images, taken over nearly a decade and a half, captures motion in Kepler's supernova remnant.

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Quick Look: Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job (08-03-2020)
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.

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A Quick Look at Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity (07-15-2020)
Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another.

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A Quick Look at X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days (06-18-2020)
By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline for when stars like the Sun start blasting high-energy radiation into space.

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A Quick Look at a New Galactic Center Adventure in Virtual Reality (06-02-2020)
A new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

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