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Video Series: Quick Look

Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.

A Quick Look at the Dark Energy Quasar Survey (01-29-2019)
Dark energy, a proposed force or energy that permeates all space and accelerates the Universe's expansion, may vary over time.

- Related Links:
--  Astronomers Find Dark Energy May Vary Over Time

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A Quick Look at Cygnus A (01-10-2019)
A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

- Related Links:
--  Cygnus A: Ricocheting Black Hole Jet Discovered by Chandra

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A Quick Look at ASASSN14-li (01-09-2019)
A tidal disruption event in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth.

- Related Links:
--  Shredded Star Leads to Important Black Hole Discovery

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A Quick Look at Archival Images (12-17-2018)
A collection of images including Chandra data that range in object type and distance.

- Related Links:
--  Chandra Image Collection (Archives 2018)

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A Quick Look at Abell 1033 (11-15-2018)
Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise, an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise.

- Related Links:
--  To Boldly Go into Colliding Galaxy Clusters

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A Quick Look at Kes 75 (10-18-2018)
Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy. This result could provide astronomers new information about how some stars end their lives.

- Related Links:
--  Kes 75: Milky Way's Youngest Pulsar Exposes Secrets of Star's Demise

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A Quick Look at GRB 150101B (10-16-2018)
A distant cosmic relative to the first source that astronomers detected in both gravitational waves and light may have been discovered.

- Related Links:
--  All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational-Wave Source Discovered

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A Quick Look at Abell 2142 (09-27-2018)
Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make heads and tails of a fascinating galactic system.

- Related Links:
--  Making Head or Tail of a Galactic Landscape

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A Quick Look at Ring Galaxy AM 0644-741 (09-06-2018)
Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy 300 million light years from Earth.

- Related Links:
--  AM 0644-741: Cosmic Collision Forges Galactic One Ring -- in X-rays

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A Quick Look at COSMOS Legacy Survey (08-09-2018)
These Chandra data have provided strong evidence for the existence of so-called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs).

- Related Links:
--  Finding the Happy Medium of Black Holes

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