The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. See 25 'never-before-seen' images ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers uncovered a mysterious feature within the remnant, nicknamed the "Green ...

At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short. Celestial lighthouse: NASA describes a pulsar ...

X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple ... NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand An enormous black hole in the early universe is much bigger ...

Paula Sánchez Sáez, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory in Germany, was among the first to respond. “When we first saw Ansky light up in optical images, we triggered follow-up ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy ... Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (red) show gas with temperatures of millions of degrees.

But we have many more illuminating images to look forward to before then. Abigail Tucker is Smithsonian’s staff writer. The Chandra X-ray Observatory showed gas heated by explosions and by a ...

M16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, is a young star-forming region in the Serpens constellation, famously home to the "Pillars of Creation" captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 3627 is a ...

Getty Images A low score on the sit-to-stand ... sonifications' of the Universe on the 25th anniversary of Chandra, its X-ray Observatory. Researchers in Australia put cameras on sea lions ...

Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of ... of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show ...