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Tour: The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets (10-14-2020)
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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Quick Look: The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets (10-14-2020)
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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-- The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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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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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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Tour: 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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-- Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way
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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Tour: 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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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: 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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-- NASA's Chandra Opens Treasure Trove of Cosmic Delights
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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Tour: 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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-- Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years
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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-- Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years
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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-- Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years
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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-- Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years
Tour: 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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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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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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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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Please note: These podcasts include artist illustrations and conceptual animations in addition to astronomical data.
Revised: September 11, 2019