18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
... Geminga and B0355+54 have helped to shed light on the distinctive emission signatures of these objects. By using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers observed the pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) of Geminga and B0355+54. PWN are donut-shaped rings...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... an expanding bubble of high-energy particles that emits light as bright X-ray emission. Purposely watching the event alongside LIGO was NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and it was looking for exactly that - a maelstrom of electromagnetic activity...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
.... This phenomena is what Di Stefano and colleagues observed after they pointed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at a x-ray binary known as M51-ULS-1. M51-ULS-1 lies close to the heart of Messier 51 (M51), a spiral galaxy 31 million ...
05 April 2018
Newly discovered black holes suggests thousands more in our galaxy
... when the binaries are in an inactive state. Using archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory to test their technique, Hailey and colleagues searched for X-ray signatures of black hole-low mass binaries and were able to find a dozen...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
.../Wirtanen allowed astronomers to study it in detail. They combined the unique capabilities of Hubble, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to study how gases are released from the nucleus, what the comet’s ices are...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
... and energy as powerful jets that astronomers were able to observe with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories. The record-breaking, gargantuan eruption was also picked up in radio data from the Murchison Widefield...
