http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/kids_images.html en-us https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/m51/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/m51/kids.html Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:00:00 EST An ultraluminous X-ray source in the M51, or Whirlpool, galaxy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/jupiter/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/jupiter/kids.html Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:00:00 EST Jupiter's Independently Pulsating X-ray Auroras https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/rsmbh/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/rsmbh/kids.html Thu, 11 May 2017 12:00:00 EST A candidate recoiling black hole located in an elliptical galaxy about 3.9 billion light years away. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/kids.html Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:00:00 EST An unparalleled image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory gives astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning soon after the Big Bang. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/pluto/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/pluto/kids.html Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:00:00 EST A dwarf planet in the outer regions of the Solar System. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/gj3253/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/gj3253/kids.html Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:00:00 EST A low-mass red dwarf star about 31 light years away from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/a1033/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/a1033/kids.html Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:00 EST A collision of two galaxy clusters located about 1.6 billion light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/ngc6388/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/ngc6388/kids.html Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:00:00 EST The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/a2597/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/a2597/kids.html Wed, 04 Mar 2015 12:00:00 EST A galaxy cluster located about one billion light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/sgra/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/sgra/kids.html Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:00:00 EST The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way about 26,000 light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/ngc2207/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/ngc2207/kids.html Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:00:00 EST NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are two spiral galaxies in the process of merging. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/archives/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/archives/kids.html Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:00:00 EST Six images that combine Chandra data with those from other telescopes. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/15year/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/15year/kids.html Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:00:00 EST Four newly processed images of supernova remnants have been released. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/m51/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/m51/kids.html Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:00:00 EST Nearly a million seconds of observing time with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way glittering with hundreds of X-ray points of light. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/g352/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/g352/kids.html Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:00:00 EST Supernovas are the spectacular ends to the lives of many massive stars. These explosions can produce enormous amounts of energy and be as bright as an entire galaxy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/eso137/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/eso137/kids.html Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:00:00 EST The spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 looks like a dandelion caught in a breeze in this new composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/cirx1/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/cirx1/kids.html Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:00:00 EST A neutron star and normal star binary pair about 26,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/coma/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/coma/kids.html Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:00:00 EST A collection of thousands of galaxies about 320 million light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgra_gas/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgra_gas/kids.html Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:00:00 EST 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. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc1232/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc1232/kids.html Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:00:00 EST A giant cloud of superheated gas that is likely caused by a collision between galaxies. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/hd189733/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/hd189733/kids.html Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:00:00 EST An exoplanet in orbit around a star about 63 light years from Earth https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc2392/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc2392/kids.html Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:00:00 EST A Sun-like star in its end phase of life about 4,200 light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/g19/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/g19/kids.html Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:00:00 EST A supernova remnant in the Milky Way located about 28,000 light years from Earth https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgr0418/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sgr0418/kids.html Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:00 EST A type of neutron star that has a relatively slow spin rate and generates occasional large blasts of X-rays. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/4c2930/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/4c2930/kids.html Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 EST This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc6240/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc6240/kids.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:00 EST Two large galaxies are colliding and scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas that surrounds them. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc602/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc602/kids.html Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:00:00 EST The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/kepler/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/kepler/kids.html Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:00 EST A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova belongs to an important class of objects that are used to measure the rate of expansion of the Universe. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/47tuc/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/47tuc/kids.html Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:00:00 EST Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/w49b/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/w49b/kids.html Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:00:00 EST New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is ejected at high speeds along the poles of a rotating star. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/deml50/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/deml50/kids.html Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:00:00 EST A superbubble located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years from Earth. Superbubbles are found in regions where massive stars have formed in the last few million years. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/vela/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/vela/kids.html Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:00:00 EST A new Chandra movie of the Vela pulsar shows it may be "precessing," or wobbling as it spins. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/ngc922/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/ngc922/kids.html Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:00:00 EST NGC 922 was formed by the collision between two galaxies - one seen in this image and another located outside the field of view. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/a30/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/a30/kids.html Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:00:00 EST These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/cygob2/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/cygob2/kids.html Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:00:00 EST The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations that each contain hundreds to thousands of hot, massive, young stars known as O and B stars. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/pne/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/pne/kids.html Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:00:00 EST This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/n1929/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/n1929/kids.html Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:00 EST A superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located about 160,000 light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/phoenix/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/phoenix/kids.html Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:00:00 EST The Phoenix Cluster is an extraordinary galaxy cluster that is breaking several important astronomical records. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/igrj11014/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/igrj11014/kids.html Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EST Researchers using three different telescopes -- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia -- may have found the fastest moving pulsar ever seen. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/sn2010/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/sn2010/kids.html Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:00 EST Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/m83/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/m83/kids.html Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST A spiral galaxy located about 15 million light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/musketball/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/musketball/kids.html Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST A merger of galaxy clusters about 5.2 billion light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/casa/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/casa/kids.html Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EST A new study of a supernova remnant indicates that the original massive star may have turned inside out in the explosion. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/a383/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/a383/kids.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EST A cluster of galaxies located about 2.3 billion light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/sgra/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/sgra/kids.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST Illustration of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/g350/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/g350/kids.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST A supernova remnant located about 14,700 light years from Earth toward the center of the Milky Way https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/elgordo/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/elgordo/kids.html Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST A galaxy cluster located about 7.2 billion light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/sxp1062/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/sxp1062/kids.html Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST A pulsar found within a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/a2052/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/a2052/kids.html Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST A cluster of galaxies located about 480 million light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/cygx1/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/cygx1/kids.html Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST A stellar-mass black hole in orbit with a companion star located about 6,000 light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/30dor/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/30dor/kids.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest star-forming regions located close to the Milky Way. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/g299/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/g299/kids.html Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST G299.2-2.9 is an intriguing supernova remnant found about 16,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/ngc281/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/ngc281/kids.html Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/corot/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/corot/kids.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST This graphic contains an image and illustration of a nearby star, named CoRoT-2a, which has a planet in close orbit around it. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/n3393/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/n3393/kids.html Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EST A spiral galaxy with two supermassive black holes located about 160 milion light years from Earth. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/a2744/kids.html https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/a2744/kids.html Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:00:00 EST A collision of galaxy clusters about 3.5 billion light years away.