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A Tour of IDCS J1426.5+3508 (01-12-2016)
New X-ray data from Chandra confirmed that IDCS J1426 was indeed enormous, weighing in at a whopping 500 trillion times the mass of our Sun.
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-- NASA’s Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster
New X-ray data from Chandra confirmed that IDCS J1426 was indeed enormous, weighing in at a whopping 500 trillion times the mass of our Sun.
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-- NASA’s Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster
A Tour of NGC 5195 (01-11-2016)
Astronomers using Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence for powerful blasts produced by a giant black hole.
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-- NASA's Chandra Finds Supermassive Black Hole Burping Nearby
Astronomers using Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence for powerful blasts produced by a giant black hole.
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-- NASA's Chandra Finds Supermassive Black Hole Burping Nearby
Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere (12-24-2015)
Bubbles represent important physical phenomena that can be found across many scales and in many different types of objects.
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-- Bubbles Large and Small
Bubbles represent important physical phenomena that can be found across many scales and in many different types of objects.
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-- Bubbles Large and Small
A Tour of Zwicky 8338 (12-22-2015)
An extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail has been discovered using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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-- Chandra Finds Remarkable Galactic Ribbon Unfurled
An extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail has been discovered using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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-- Chandra Finds Remarkable Galactic Ribbon Unfurled
A Tour of IC 443 (12-15-2015)
The Jellyfish Nebula, lying about 5,000 light years from Earth, is the remnant of a supernova that occurred over 10,000 years ago.
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-- What Spawned the Jellyfish Nebula?
The Jellyfish Nebula, lying about 5,000 light years from Earth, is the remnant of a supernova that occurred over 10,000 years ago.
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-- What Spawned the Jellyfish Nebula?
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