Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Neutron Stars
The Universe
A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before — and it may help solve two outstanding cosmic mysteries. A paper describing these results […]
Posted March 10, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Jupiter
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Planets
Saturn
Science & Research
Sonifications
The Solar System
Uranus
In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. New sonifications from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released Feb. 25 will help commemorate this latest “planetary parade.” Because the planets in our solar system travel around the Sun […]
Posted February 25, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Stars
The Universe
For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble – called an “astrosphere” – completely surrounds the juvenile star. Winds from the star’s surface are blowing up the bubble and filling it with hot gas […]
Posted February 23, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
A new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster – among the largest structures in the universe – started to assemble only about a billion years after the big bang, one or two billion years earlier than previously thought. This result, made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope, will […]
Posted January 28, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
General
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has a “back catalog” of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compendium has been developed: the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC).
Posted January 23, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
Supernova Remnants
The Universe
A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in the night sky in 1604. Today, astronomers know that a white dwarf star exploded when […]
Posted January 6, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster Dec. 31, 2020.
Posted December 30, 2025
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Projects
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
The Universe
X-ray Astronomy
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy.
Posted December 16, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxy clusters
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
This image released on June 30, 2025, combines data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to visualize dark matter. Researchers used Webb’s observations to carefully measure the mass of the galaxy clusters shown here as well as the collective light emitted by stars that are no longer bound to individual […]
Posted November 14, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Star-forming Nebulae
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, green, and blue, while infrared data from Webb are pink, orange, and purple. The wispy structures that dominate […]
Posted September 22, 2025
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

8
1
5
296
7
4
1
2
3
29
6
1
55
4
10
2
1
7
595
141
6
10
2
9
230
10
1
90
1
1
2
1
42
14
2
29
184
3
3
1
18
1
1
1
13
12
2
4
10
135
209
37
1
23
1
1
4
2
9
1
18
6
3
1
2
3
Io
4
9
1
323
11
2
13
1
6
6
1
3
47
1
1

Recent Posts

Newsletter Archive