January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... over a composite image of Centaurus A taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Chandra X-Ray observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. The observed differences between both tracers of the magnetic field...
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...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... surrounded by a dust cloud that was ejected during the merger. Chandra X-ray Image of Mira (left pic) showing Mira A, a highly evolved...infrared as a bright kilonova transient and a short gamma-ray burst at higher energy. Models of binary stars will ...
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.
26 July 2019
Three massive black holes caught in the act of merging
... to be emitted as high-energy radiation such as gamma-rays and x-rays, and the output can be so bright it makes the... but comprehensive new observations with the Hubble Space telescope, Chandra X-ray, and the Very Large Array (VLA) located in central...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... 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 of light...
