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Chandra Photo Album :: Recent Discoveries
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A Clash of Clusters Provides Another Clue to Dark Matter
Another powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope.
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A Monster Galaxy at the Heart of Perseus Cluster
The active galaxy NGC 1275 is also a well-known radio source (Perseus A) and a strong emitter of X-rays due to the presence of a black hole in the center of the galaxy.
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A Nearby Galaxy Metropolis
This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the giant elliptical galaxy, M87. M87 lies at a distance of 60 million light years and is the largest galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.
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The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux
This composite of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope is a new look for NGC 6543, better known as the Cat's Eye nebula.
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A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes
This is a composite image of the giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649, located about 51 million light years from Earth.
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Liberating Star Stuff
Just over a thousand years ago, the stellar explosion known as supernova SN 1006 was observed.
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Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes.
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A Mixed Bag
When some stars die, they explode as supernovas and their debris fields (aka, "supernova remnants") expand into the surrounding environments.
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Supernova Caught in Act of Exploding
On January 9, 2008, NASA's Swift satellite was used to fortuitously observe a very bright X-ray outburst in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, located 90 million light-years from Earth.
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Discovery of Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy
The expanding remains of a supernova explosion in the Milky Way are shown in this composite image of the supernova remnant G1.9+0.3.
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