An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
A collection of multimedia, illustrations & animations, a glossary, FAQ & more.
A collection of illustrations, animations and video.
Chandra discoveries in an audio/video format.
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Where Are They Now? Steve Hawley
Steve Hawley was the flight engineer on the STS-93 Columbia mission that carried Chandra into space in 1999. |
At a recent symposium celebrating 15 years of Chandra Science, Steve sat down over breakfast to talk about his illustrious career so far, and plans for the future.Full Story |
A Chandra image release was issued on Nov 12 describing a study which found a bubble of ultra-hot gas at the center of the planetary nebula IC 4593.
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The Symbiosis of Powerful Quasar Jets and Their Bright Coronas
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Shifu Zhu
Shifu Zhu, a 5th-year graduate student of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University, is our guest blogger for this post. He received...
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IC 4593 [11/12/2020]
A planetary nebula located about 7,800 light years from Earth.
Take Chandra anywhere! Just download Chandra Podcasts to your portable MP3 player and go. Now playing: Tour: Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical for GPS, Seen in Distant Stars
G299.2-2.9: A supernova remnant in the Milky Way about 16,000 light years from Earth. Download Desktop.
Harvey's VoyageOn April 20, 2014, Harvey Tananbaum stepped down after 23 years as director of the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC).
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TYREL JOHNSON & JATILA VAN DER VEENOn April 18, 1998, NASA announced a contest to name the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), which was scheduled for launch in December of that year.
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Mirror ManLess than 50 years after the first detection of an extrasolar X-ray source, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has achieved an increase in sensitivity comparable to going from naked-eye observations to the most powerful optical telescopes over the past 400 years.
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An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
A collection of multimedia, illustrations & animations, a glossary, FAQ & more.
