The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

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Tour: NASA's Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views May 23, 2023

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Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster.

Tour: 'H' is for Hot and Huge in Chandra Image May 04, 2023

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With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of a massive elliptical galaxy is making a mark on its surroundings.

Tour: New Stellar Danger to Planets Identified by NASA's Chandra Apr 20, 2023

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Astronomers have identified a new threat to life on planets like Earth: a phase during which intense X-rays from exploded stars can affect planets over 100 light-years away.

Tour: Chandra Determines What Makes a Galaxy's Wind Blow Mar 29, 2023

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Data from Chandra show the effects of powerful winds launched from the center of a nearby galaxy.

Tour: Chandra Helps Astronomers Discover a Surprisingly Lonely Galaxy Mar 08, 2023

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A distant – and lonely – galaxy appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former companion galaxies.

Tour: NASA's Chandra Discovers Giant Black Holes on Collision Course Feb 22, 2023

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A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has tracked two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses.

Tour: Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters Jan 30, 2023

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Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and a trio of radio telescopes are helping astronomers sort out what is happening in this jumbled scene.

Tour: Astronomers Dig Out Buried Black Holes With NASA's Chandra Jan 11, 2023

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A new survey using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered hundreds of previously "hidden" black holes.

Tour: Chandra Sees Stellar X-rays Exceeding Safety Limits Dec 15, 2022

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A new study provides insight into how X-rays from stars like our Sun, but billions of years younger, could partially or completely evaporate the atmospheres of planets orbiting them.

Tour: Astronomers See Stellar Self-Control in Action Nov 29, 2022

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A study of RCW 36 shows that stars in a cluster can limit how many new stars form when the biggest and brightest members expel most of the gas from the system, thus drastically slowing down star birth.

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