10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
.... The new mission builds on and complements the scientific discoveries of other telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s flagship X-ray telescope. First light operations are scheduled to begin in January. NASA Marshall manages the...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
..., Spitzer was one of NASA's four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The Great Observatories program demonstrated the power of using different wavelengths...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
...investigator of the NuSTAR mission. Working in tandem with other space missions, such as NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, that detects objects with lower X-ray energies than those detected by NuSTAR, will provide astronomers with a powerful tool for...
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
... energy is in the form of radiation, such as intense radio waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays. "Jets are the best accelerators in the universe -- far better than the...off the coast of Spain, as well as with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory space telescope.
