Showing posts with label CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2013

HOT GAS ARMS IN COMA CLUSTER OF GALAXIES

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FROM:  NASA,   Clues to the Growth of the Colossus in Coma A team of astronomers has discovered enormous arms of hot gas in the Coma cl...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

IMMENSE POWER GENERATED BY SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE

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FROM: NASA This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to gener...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

THE DEAD STAR

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FROM: NASA Sizzling Remains of a Dead Star This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

A REALLY BIG BLACK HOLE

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FROM:  NASA, BLACK HOLE The black hole at the center of this galaxy is part of a survey of 18 of the biggest black holes in the unive...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

A PLACE WHERE STARS COME FROM

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FROM: NASA A Nearby Stellar Cradle The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations ...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

COLLISION OF A GALACTIC PROPORTION

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FROM: NASA Spacecraft Image Mashup Shows Galactic Collision This new composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Sp...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

SHOCK-WAVE

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FROM:  NASA Using observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supern...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

GALACTIC COLLISION

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FROM:  NASA Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision betw...