Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
Quick Look: Embracing a Rejected Star (07-25-2022)
Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helps tell more of the story of this runaway star.
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Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helps tell more of the story of this runaway star.
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Tour: Embracing a Rejected Star (07-25-2022)
Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helps tell more of the story of this runaway star.
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-- Embracing a Rejected Star
Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helps tell more of the story of this runaway star.
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Tour: Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers (06-30-2022)
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine the spin of the black hole in H1821+643, making it the most massive one to have an accurate measurement of this fundamental property.
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-- Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine the spin of the black hole in H1821+643, making it the most massive one to have an accurate measurement of this fundamental property.
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Quick Look: Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers (06-30-2022)
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine the spin of the black hole in H1821+643, making it the most massive one to have an accurate measurement of this fundamental property.
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-- Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine the spin of the black hole in H1821+643, making it the most massive one to have an accurate measurement of this fundamental property.
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-- Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers
Tour: NASA's Chandra Catches Pulsar in X-ray Speed Trap (06-15-2022)
A young pulsar is blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster is one of the fastest objects of its kind ever seen.
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A young pulsar is blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster is one of the fastest objects of its kind ever seen.
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Revised: December 28, 2022