Quick Look: Chandra Sees Black Hole Stirring "Pot" Containing Galactic Potato (07-21-2026)
A black hole may be stirring a "pot" of gas containing a neighboring galaxy in the early universe, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms' Length (07-01-2026)
A new result shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This finding may lead astronomers to adjust their understanding of our home galaxy's structure.

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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions (06-15-2026)
The aftermath of a stellar explosion should be a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA's Chandra at the nearby galaxy M83, the last thing they expected to find was a population of supernova remnants appearing to dramatically change in brightness.

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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Discovers Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center (06-11-2026)
Astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. If confirmed, it would be one of the closest ever discovered to the supermassive black hole at the central region of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Quick Look: Galaxy Cluster Relaxed Now, but was Wild in the Past (05-12-2026)
New Chandra observations of "the most relaxed cluster in the Universe," Abell 2029, clearly show that it had a much more colorful history than its current disposition suggests.

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Quick Look: NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly (04-14-2026)
A new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows how young, Sun-like stars are calming down and dimming in their X-ray output more quickly than previously thought.

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Quick Look: NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site (03-10-2026)
A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas.

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Quick Look: Listen to This Month's "Planetary Parade" with NASA's Chandra (02-25-2026)
To commemorate a six-planet alignment in late February 2026, Chandra released sonifications of three of those planets: Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

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Quick Look: Young "Sun" Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA's Chandra (02-23-2026)
This image contains the first "astrosphere," or wind-blown bubble, that astronomers have captured surrounding a star that is a younger version of our Sun.

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Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Spot Surprisingly Mature Cluster in Early Universe (01-28-2026)
A new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster started to assemble only about a billion years after the big bang, one or two billion years earlier than previously thought.

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