Chandra is still functioning well, and scientists expect the instrument to soldier on for at least another decade. Eventually, perhaps a century from now, the worn-out telescope will likely slip ...

The new instrument will orbit much farther from ... The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared orbiting telescope that can ...

Earth’s atmosphere absorbs X-rays, so X-ray astronomers must place their telescopes in space. The Chandra telescope was launched by the space shuttle Columbia in 1999 and is today operated by ...

Astronomers are using the Chandra X-Ray observatory, a powerful, space-based telescope, to examine the first black holes. These black holes appeared in the first one to two billion years after the ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact ...

This view combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (magenta), optical light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (orange, light blue), infrared data from the European Southern ...

The Chandra X-ray Space Telescope spotted the event in a galaxy 10.7 billion light years away. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Astronomers just observed an explosion in space ...