The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched...
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Cloud". ESO.org. European Southern Observatory. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019. "Chandra X-Ray Observatory". Discovery of Most Recent Supernova...
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de-orbited in 2000 after a gyroscope failed. The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) primarily observes soft X-rays. It was launched in 1999 aboard Columbia during...
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CGRO was part of NASA's Great Observatories series, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope...
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1999), which was a heavy X-ray space observatory with focusing X-ray optics, and European EXOSAT. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched by NASA in...
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powerful X-ray astronomy observatory constructed to date, enabling order-of-magnitude advances in capability over the current Chandra X-ray Observatory and...
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resolution than the previous generation (XMM-Newton, Chandra X-ray Observatory and Suzaku) of space-based X-ray telescopes; this would allow the resolution of...
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STS-93 (category Chandra X-ray Observatory)
Commander on this flight. Its primary mission was to launch the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the heaviest payload ever carried by the Space Shuttle system...
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Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM...
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Space Observatory in 2011, again by Hubble in 2014 with a newer camera, and the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Released in 2007, Chandra X-ray Observatory...
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Cassiopeia A (section X-ray source)
source is Cas A (SNR G111.7-02.1) at 2U 2321+58. In 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory found CXOU J232327.8+584842, a central compact object that is...
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Pollux, and the star is known to be an X-ray emitter. New X-ray observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory show three distinct structures: an outer...
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The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) is a cancelled X-ray telescope that was to be launched in 2021 as a joint effort by NASA, the European Space...
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Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (category Astronomical observatories in Massachusetts)
research observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the forthcoming Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one...
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Cat's Eye Nebula (section X-ray observations)
the edge of the nebula. In 2001, observations at X-ray wavelengths by the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed the presence of extremely hot gas within...
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American astronomer who served as Telescope Scientist for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia...
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Earth. According to current interpretations of X-ray observations made by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton, the center of this galaxy is a...
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Milky Way (section Gamma rays and x-rays)
light-years (9 kpc) away. In addition to the stellar halo, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku have provided evidence that there is also...
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young—less than about one thousand years old. In 2007, X-ray observations made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the object was about 15% larger...
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STS-37 (section Compton Gamma Ray Observatory)
Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Chandra X-ray...
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory, originating at MSFC, was launched on July 3, 1999, and is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. With...
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed LMXBs in many distant galaxies. A typical low-mass X-ray binary emits almost all of its radiation in X-rays, and...
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and becomes electrically neutral. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have detected X-rays from a low mass brown dwarf in a multiple star...
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X-ray and gamma-ray observations of quasars using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ground-based gamma-ray observations...
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as of 2023. To detect this object, astronomers working at the Chandra X-ray Observatory used the Abell 2744's cluster mass as a gravitational lens in...
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The Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) is an image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite. The location was chosen because, like the Lockman Hole...
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1975) is a data visualizer and science communicator for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. She is also the visualization coordinator for the Aesthetics...
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light years. On June 23, 2015, an article published on NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory's website, revealed that an international team of astronomers has...
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Black Widow Pulsar (category X-ray binaries)
in H-alpha and a smaller-in-extent shock seen in X-rays (as observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory), indicating a forward velocity of approximately...
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150–200 light-years away, but further observations using the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2002 indicate that its distance is greater—about 400 light-years...
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