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Black Hole Shreds Star And Has Moved On To Another Target
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have found that a black hole that shredded a star has moved onto a another star or stellar black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hoba ...
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World’s largest telescope faces risk from renewable energy project, warn scientists
Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...
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Early universe had more supermassive black holes than previously thought
The blazar, named J0410–0139, is located about 12.9 billion light-years away at the center of a galaxy. This makes it the ...
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BAE Systems delivers NASA's SPHEREx Observatory for launch
BAE Systems built both the spacecraft bus and telescope for the observatory, in addition to leading spacecraft integration ...
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Habitability Of Exoplanets Studied By NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
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Exoplanets Need to Be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds
Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X ...
Exoplanets around red dwarfs face extreme space weather, Chandra finds
Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X ...
Two NASA astronauts are currently outside the ISS, repairing an X-ray telescope
Two NASA astronauts are currently hard at work in space, patching up an instrument called NICER (Neutron star Interior ...
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Chandra: Exoplanets Face Extreme Space Weather
This artist's illustration represents the results from a new study that examines the effects of X-ray and other high-energy ...
X-ray echoes reveal 3D structure of molecular clouds in our galaxy's center
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
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X-ray Echoes Unveil 3D Structure of Galactic Clouds
Alboslani and Brunker used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spanning two decades to create their 3D models of the ...
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First-Ever Detection of a Mid-Infrared Flare in Sagittarius A*, the central source of the Milky Way
Simultaneous observations with the Submillimeter Array (SMA), the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory filled in an additional part of the story. No flare ...