Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has, for the first time, detected X-ray emissions from a 'little red dot' — a rare class of objects first spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope about 12 billion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted “little red dots” in the universe, and a new X‑ray discovery from the Chandra ...

A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A new collection of images features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These objects have been observed in invisible light — including ...

Composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also known as Pandora's Cluster, taken by the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes and the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Hot intracluster gas is shown ...

Images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope were combined with data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Spitzer Space Telescope, plus the European Space ...

The cover of the September 4, 2000, issue shows NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which provided significant data during its initial year of operation, complementing astronomical observations in other ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. As NASA’s premier X-ray telescope, Chandra gives us a powerful tool to investigate hot regions of the Universe, from black holes, to exploding ...

NASA's Chandra orbiting X-ray observatory has validated a theory about the formation of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, detecting a halo of hot gas exactly where theory predicted it would be, ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected the first X-ray emission from a 'little red dot', a mysterious object type first identified by the James Webb Space Telescope. The find supports theories ...