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NASA’s Chandra Releases Deep Cut From Catalog of Cosmic Recordings
NASA’s Chandra Releases Deep Cut From Catalog of Cosmic Recordings NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has released an updated version of its cosmic recording catalog, known as the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) 2.1, which contains over 400,000 unique sources and 1.3 million individual detections. The CSC is a treasure trove of information gathered from Chandra’s observations, […]
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NASA’s Chandra Diagnoses Cause of Fracture in Galactic “Bone”
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. The bone, called G359.13 or “The Snake”, was struck by a fast-moving, rapidly spinning neutron star (pulsar) at speeds […]
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Flickering X-rays shed light on supermassive black holes
Flickering X-rays shed light on supermassive black holes Flickering X-rays from the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope have provided insight into the relationship between galaxies and their supermassive black holes, shedding light on how the universe developed over the past 14 billion years. Researchers analyzed 15 years of data collected by Chandra to reconstruct the […]
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