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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth (09-18-2025)
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively quickly after the Big Bang.
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A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively quickly after the Big Bang.
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Quick Look: X-ray, Radio Go 'Hand in Hand' in New NASA Image (08-20-2025)
In 2009, Chandra released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object.
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-- X-ray, Radio Go 'Hand in Hand' in New NASA Image
In 2009, Chandra released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object.
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Quick Look: Chandra Captures Razzle-Dazzle Across Space in New Images (07-23-2025)
A new eye-catching compilation of images is being released that features data from Chandra along with a host of other telescopes including Webb, Hubble, and more.
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-- Chandra Captures Razzle-Dazzle Across Space in New Images
A new eye-catching compilation of images is being released that features data from Chandra along with a host of other telescopes including Webb, Hubble, and more.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking (07-16-2025)
A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor (06-25-2025)
Astronomers study Andromeda to better understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Astronomers study Andromeda to better understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Quick Look: NASA's Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic "Noon" (06-09-2025)
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself.
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A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself.
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Quick Look: Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA's Chandra Finds (06-04-2025)
New observations have captured a powerful cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other.
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-- Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA's Chandra Finds
New observations have captured a powerful cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other.
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Quick Look: Eccentric 'Star' Defies Easy Explanation, NASA's Chandra Finds (05-28-2025)
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving new clues about the origin of a class of mysterious objects.
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Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving new clues about the origin of a class of mysterious objects.
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Quick Look: NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue (05-09-2025)
This new trio of sonifications represents different aspects of black holes.
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This new trio of sonifications represents different aspects of black holes.
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Quick Look: Mysterious X-ray Signal in Dying Star Points to Destroyed Planet (05-01-2025)
Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes.
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-- NASA's Chandra Diagnoses Cause of Fracture in Galactic "Bone"
Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes.
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