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Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision
[/caption] From JPL: A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies,…
Andromeda’s Unstable Black Hole
[/caption] The Andromeda galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, has a supermassive blackhole at the center…
X-Ray Observations Find Evidence for “Missing Matter” in the Universe
[/caption] From a Chandra press release: Scientists have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to detect a vast…
Merging White Dwarfs Set Off Supernovae
New results from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory suggests that the majority of Type Ia supernovae occur due to the merger…
Caught in the Act! Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
[/caption] Excellent teamwork by astronomers working in two different wavebands – x-ray and optical - has led to the discovery…
Twin Tails Tell a Crazy Tale of Star Formation
[/caption] Stars forming outside a galaxy? That's what a new observation with the Chandra X-ray Observatory appears to show. “This…
Chandra Stares Deep into the Heart of Sagittarius A*
Caption: Latest Chandra image of Sgr A*. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/F. Baganoff, R. Shcherbakov et al. How long can you stare…
Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole
NGC 1399, an elliptical galaxy about 65 million light years from Earth. Credit: NASA, Chandra A dense stellar remnant has…
Shapes Reveal Supernovae History
These two supernova remnants are part of a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory that shows how the shape…