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Overview for Museums, Planetariums and other Informal Education Venues

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes. This collection of podcasts (scroll through the 3 videos in the YouTube frame below) provides an overview of the Chandra mission and X-ray astronomy.


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Additional resources:
- Resource request form
-Browse Chandra images by category or date
- High-def animations
- Illustrations relating to release/science concepts
- Top ten facts about Chandra

Return to full informal education resource list: http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/