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Quick Look: Black Hole Destroys Star and Goes After Another (10-09-2024)
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.
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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.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster That Crosses the Streams (09-19-2024)
A galaxy has streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that "crossing the streams" does not necessarily end in disaster. In fact, it may lead to the creation of new structures.
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A galaxy has streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that "crossing the streams" does not necessarily end in disaster. In fact, it may lead to the creation of new structures.
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Quick Look: New NASA Sonifications Listen to the Universe's Past (08-26-2024)
Sonifications of three images have been released to mark the 25th anniversary of Chandra's "First Light" image.
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Sonifications of three images have been released to mark the 25th anniversary of Chandra's "First Light" image.
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Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole's Snack Schedule (08-14-2024)
A team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material.
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A team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material.
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Quick Look: 25 Images to Celebrate Chandra's 25th Anniversary (07-22-2024)
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects.
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects.
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Quick Look: Take a Summer Road Trip Through Images with NASA's Chandra, Webb (07-11-2024)
It's time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope.
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-- Take a Summer Road Trip Through Images with NASA's Chandra, Webb
It's time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars (06-20-2024)
A new study using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton reveals that the interiors of neutron stars may contain a type of ultra-dense matter not found anywhere else in the Universe.
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A new study using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton reveals that the interiors of neutron stars may contain a type of ultra-dense matter not found anywhere else in the Universe.
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Quick Look: Coming in Hot: NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets (06-12-2024)
A study with Chandra and XMM-Newton indicates which stars near our Sun could have habitable exoplanets around them based on whether they receive lethal radiation from the stars they orbit.
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A study with Chandra and XMM-Newton indicates which stars near our Sun could have habitable exoplanets around them based on whether they receive lethal radiation from the stars they orbit.
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Quick Look: Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action (05-22-2024)
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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-- Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action
Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting (05-09-2024)
Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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