Originally discovered by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope in 2009, Pulsar PSR J0357 had a bit of a surprise…
[/caption] ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray Space Observatory has just opened our eyes once again. While we…
[/caption] The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, or MAXI for short, spends its time aboard the ISS conducting a full…
[/caption] It's a gamma-ray flare - the most extreme form of light so far known. So, what could top it?…
During a routine twelve and a half hour observation of star system IGR J18410-0535, the XMM-Newton caught an event that…
[/caption] Discovered in 1964 during a rocket flight, Cygnus X-1 holds the record for being the strongest X-ray source seen…
[/caption] Engaging the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers at the University of Warwick were…
[/caption] For more than six weeks, the watchful eye of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory kept track of a small portion…
[/caption] Not since the work of Fritz Zwicky has the astronomy world been so excited about the missing mass of…
[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…