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Quick Look: Listen to the Universe: New NASA Sonifications and Documentary (02-28-2024)
Three new sonifications of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been released in conjunction with a new documentary about the project that makes its debut on the NASA+ streaming platform.
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Three new sonifications of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been released in conjunction with a new documentary about the project that makes its debut on the NASA+ streaming platform.
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Quick Look: Stellar Beads on a String (02-21-2024)
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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-- Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string."
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Quick Look: Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick (02-08-2024)
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.
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-- Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.
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Quick Look: Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years (01-11-2024)
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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-- Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years
These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.
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-- Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years
Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Chase Down "Green Monster" in Star's Debris (01-08-2024)
For the first time scientists have combined the powers of NASA's Chandra and Webb Space Telescopes to study the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, helping to solve the mystery behind the remnant's "Green Monster".
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-- Cassiopeia A: NASA Telescopes Chase Down "Green Monster" in Star's Debris
For the first time scientists have combined the powers of NASA's Chandra and Webb Space Telescopes to study the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, helping to solve the mystery behind the remnant's "Green Monster".
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars (11-30-2023)
A group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating companion stars within their reach.
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A group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating companion stars within their reach.
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Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole (11-06-2023)
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes.
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Quick Look: X-ray Telescopes Reveal the "Bones" of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand (10-30-2023)
Chandra's data of MSH 15-52 have been combined with data from NASA's newest X-ray telescope, IXPE to unveil the magnetic field "bones" of this remarkable structure.
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-- X-ray Telescopes Reveal the "Bones" of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand
Chandra's data of MSH 15-52 have been combined with data from NASA's newest X-ray telescope, IXPE to unveil the magnetic field "bones" of this remarkable structure.
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Quick Look: Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840s (09-26-2023)
Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century.
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-- Eta Carinae: Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840s
Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century.
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Quick Look: A Fab Five: New Images With NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (09-13-2023)
A new collection of stunning images highlights data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.
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-- A Fab Five: New Images With NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
A new collection of stunning images highlights data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.
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