The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

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A Tour of Galaxy Clusters May 06, 2016

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A new study tries to tackle the questions surrounding dark energy by examining properties of X-ray emission from galaxy clusters.

A Tour of Comets ISON and PanSTARRS Apr 21, 2016

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Recently, astronomers have performed such a study using observations with Chandra of two comets, named ISON and PanSTARRS.

A Tour of G1.9+0.3 Apr 08, 2016

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A little more than a century ago, as seen from the Earth, a star exploded near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

A Tour of Jupiter Apr 01, 2016

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A new study using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory has shown that storms from the Sun are triggering auroras in X-ray light.

A Tour of Frontier Fields Mar 23, 2016

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Two of these Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, going by their abbreviated names, are MACS J0416 and MACS J0717.

A Tour of B3 0727+409 Feb 26, 2016

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Astronomers have used Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the Universe.

A Tour of Pictor A Feb 10, 2016

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The Universe produces phenomena that often surpass what science fiction can conjure.

A Tour of IDCS J1426.5+3508 Jan 12, 2016

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New X-ray data from Chandra confirmed that IDCS J1426 was indeed enormous, weighing in at a whopping 500 trillion times the mass of our Sun.

A Tour of NGC 5195 Jan 11, 2016

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Astronomers using Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence for powerful blasts produced by a giant black hole.

Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere Dec 24, 2015

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Bubbles represent important physical phenomena that can be found across many scales and in many different types of objects.

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