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Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process...
28-Oct-2024 2:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Black Hole Destroys Star, Goes After Another, NASA Finds

A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star or smaller black hole that used to be in the clear. 
9-Oct-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New NASA Sonifications Listen to the Universe's Past

Text, images, and video: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/sonify9/ A quarter of a century ago, NASA released the “first light” images from the agency’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This introduction to the world of Chandra’s...
4-Sep-2024 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Clues to the Growth of the Colossus in Coma

A team of astronomers has discovered enormous arms of hot gas in the Coma cluster of galaxies by using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. These features, which span at least half a million light years, provide insight into...
19-Sep-2013 9:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA'S Chandra Catches Our Galaxy's Giant Black Hole Rejecting Food

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have taken a major step in explaining why material around the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is extraordinarily faint in X-rays. This discovery holds important implications...
29-Aug-2013 12:25 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Dwarf Galaxy Caught Ramming Into a Large Spiral

Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a galaxy about 60 million light years from Earth. The hot gas cloud is likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy and a much...
14-Aug-2013 1:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.
29-Jul-2013 3:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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A Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars

Magnetars – the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation – are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. A major campaign using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other...
23-May-2013 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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