31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... discovery was announced on August 30 th - the discovery of galaxy cluster CL J1001+0220 (CL J1001 for short) by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory and other telescopes. The cluster is located about 11.1 billion light years from Earth. Researchers may...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
... flyby of comet 46P/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...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... that have been keeping an eye on it such as Hubble and Chandra, have revealed that SN 1987A has passed an important stage. Before... until 2013, data from the Chandra telescope showed an expanding ring of X-ray emission that had been steadily getting...
03 October 2021
The Chandra X-ray Observatory
... academic texts such as this. The subject is the Chandra X-ray Observatory which, as the book’s subtitle confirms, was...chapters describe the spacecraft and the many astronomical sources of x-rays it is designed to observe - from stars and planetary ...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...new type of transient using an image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite, which allows astronomers to ‘see through’ ..., in order to look at how the Universe appears in X-ray radiation. The team, whose lead author on the research paper...
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...
