Chandra

Cosmic Volcano Erupting in M87

[/caption] It’s the Eyjafjallajokull of space! Chandra and the VLA have teamed up to find an erupting galactic "super-volcano" in…

14 years ago

Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision

[/caption] From JPL: A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies,…

14 years ago

X-Ray Observations Find Evidence for “Missing Matter” in the Universe

[/caption] From a Chandra press release: Scientists have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to detect a vast…

14 years ago

Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes

[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope has found what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black…

14 years ago

Merging White Dwarfs Set Off Supernovae

New results from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory suggests that the majority of Type Ia supernovae occur due to the merger…

14 years ago

Twin Tails Tell a Crazy Tale of Star Formation

[/caption] Stars forming outside a galaxy? That's what a new observation with the Chandra X-ray Observatory appears to show. “This…

14 years ago

Chandra Stares Deep into the Heart of Sagittarius A*

Caption: Latest Chandra image of Sgr A*. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/F. Baganoff, R. Shcherbakov et al. How long can you stare…

14 years ago

Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole

NGC 1399, an elliptical galaxy about 65 million light years from Earth. Credit: NASA, Chandra A dense stellar remnant has…

14 years ago

Shapes Reveal Supernovae History

These two supernova remnants are part of a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory that shows how the shape…

14 years ago

Galaxy Cluster Far, Far Away Smashes Distance Record

[/caption] A galaxy cluster located about 10.2 billion light years from Earth has been discovered by combining data from NASA's…

15 years ago