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Check out an amazing view of star cluster NGC 602. It "lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to the ...
The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...
What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...
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Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...
Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...
Using cutting-edge theoretical models and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have transformed ...
In a cosmic first, astronomers observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star. This happened outside the core of its ...
"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...
The Hubble Telescope, 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, continues to surprise despite glitches, retirement risk, and ...