Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Marshall Space Flight Center
Star Clusters
Stars
The Universe
This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, in fact, a cluster of young stars — with ages between about one and five million years old — in our Milky Way about 2,500 light-years away from Earth. The stars in […]
Posted December 19, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neutron Stars
Pulsars
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Universe
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions.
Posted November 30, 2023
General
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Milky Way
The Universe
For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be played by humans.
Posted November 15, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Black Holes
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had never been witnessed before, where its mass is similar to that of its host galaxy. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in […]
Posted November 6, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA’s X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging powers to unveil the magnetic field “bones” of a remarkable hand-shaped structure in space.
Posted October 30, 2023
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