Since its deployment on July 23, 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its unrivaled X-ray vision.
Impressive ongoing galactic fireworks, about 23 million light years away. Rather than paper, powder and fire, this galactic light show involves a giant black hole,
Hundreds of glittering x-ray stars are present in the above NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory image of the spiral Galaxy and its neighbor.
Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data,
A small, dense object and powerful pulsar only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years.
A supermassive black hole, about 70 million times more massive than our sun, exist at the center of the spiral galaxy M81.
The impact between the dwarf galaxy and the spiral galaxy caused a shock wave − akin to a sonic boom on Earth – that generated
NGC 2392 is a planetary nebula, a phase that results when a star like the sun becomes a red giant and sheds its outer layers.
The Milky Way’s enormous Black Hole unleashes the brightest flare ever, 100 times more powerful than anything ever produced before. Image credit: NASA/MIT/F. Baganoff et
A star’s spectacular death in the constellation Taurus by Spitzer Space Telescope, was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a
A gallery of four Planetary Nebulas, in this composite image, shows X-ray emission from Chandra colored purple, and optical emission from the Hubble Space Telescope
New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of
