NASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor
6 Min Read NASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest...
Category : Marshall Astrophysics
NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J....
Eccentric ‘Star’ Defies Easy Explanation, NASA’s Chandra Finds
X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen...
NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue
8 Min Read NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue The first sonification features WR124, an extremely bright, massive star. Here, the star...
NASA’s IXPE Reveals X-ray-Generating Particles in Black Hole Jets
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and...
NASA’s Chandra Diagnoses Cause of Fracture in Galactic “Bone”
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./F. Yusef-Zadeh et al; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKat; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic...
Understanding Cosmic Explosions: StarBurst Arrives at NASA for Testing
From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical engineer contractor Eloise Stump, and Marshall engineers...
X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Univ Mexico/S. Estrada-Dorado et al.; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI (M. Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector); Infrared: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand; A planet may have...
Black Holes Can Cook for Themselves, Chandra Study Shows
Perseus Cluster: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivares et al.; Optical/IR: DSS; H-alpha: CFHT/SITELLE; Centaurus Cluster: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivaresi et al.; Optical/IR: NASA/ESA/STScI; H-alpha: ESO/VLT/MUSE; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N....
Coming in Hot — NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Movie: Cal Poly Pomona/B. Binder; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss...
