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Recent discoveries and updates of the Chandra mission in video and audio formats.
Space Scoop: Megaflares Shed Light On Our Black Hole (02-26-2015)
Supermassive black holes are famous for their ability to swallow anything - even light.
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Supermassive black holes are famous for their ability to swallow anything - even light.
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Space Scoop: The Most Attractive Stars in the Universe (02-17-2015)
Astronomers think magnetars may be created when some massive stars die in a supernova explosion.
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Astronomers think magnetars may be created when some massive stars die in a supernova explosion.
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A Tour of G299.2-2.9 (02-12-2015)
This new Chandra image of G299 shows a beautiful and intricate structure in the expanding remains of the shattered star.
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-- Exploded Star Blooms Like a Cosmic Flower
This new Chandra image of G299 shows a beautiful and intricate structure in the expanding remains of the shattered star.
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-- Exploded Star Blooms Like a Cosmic Flower

A Tour of IYL 2015 (01-26-2015)
To recognize the start of IYL, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a collection of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.
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-- Chandra Celebrates The International Year of Light
To recognize the start of IYL, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a collection of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light.
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Introduction to OpenFITS (01-23-2015)
We would like to step through our new tutorial on creating a multiwavelength composite image of M101 using GIMP.
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-- openFITS - Create Images from Raw Data
We would like to step through our new tutorial on creating a multiwavelength composite image of M101 using GIMP.
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-- openFITS - Create Images from Raw Data
