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 ...

Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini mission and W.M. Keck Observatory were used to ...

(CNN) -- The space shuttle Columbia is set to nod back to man's first walk on the moon 30 years ago and make history itself as it launches July 20 from Kennedy Space Center carrying a huge telescope ...

These Chandra images reveal how stars end their life in majesty Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The supernova that resulted in the creation of SNR 0509-67.5 occurred nearly 400 years ago for ...

Special Colloquium Wednesday, May 21 4 p.m. Coburn 140 Title: The X-ray Sky in High Definition: 25 Years of Astrophysics with the Chandra X-ray Observatory Speaker: Pat Slane, Chandra Director ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. And when these “supermassive” black holes start to ...

Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an ‘X-arithmetic’ technique 'sorts features in galaxy clusters and groups into ...

Classroom-ready activities that allow students to explore scientific concepts, using the Chandra mission as a vehicle for learning. Aligned with National Science Education Standards and Project 2061 ...

There is a Neil deGrasse Tyson video covering the topic of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This essay is in part derived from that video. I suggest that you view the discussion. It will be sixty-five ...