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    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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    Great Observatories program (category Chandra X-ray Observatory)
    launched the first imaging X-ray telescope, Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2), into orbit. Work continued on the Chandra project through the 1980s and 1990s...
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    light telescope in NASA's Great Observatories program; other parts of the spectrum are covered by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...
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    Globules"). Stars are being formed inside some of these. X-ray images from the Chandra observatory compared with Hubble's "Pillars" image have shown that X-ray...
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    order-of-magnitude advances in capability over the current Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton space telescopes. In 2016, following recommendations laid out in...
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    Canary Islands, (Spain). The 2.0 m telescope at Rozhen Observatory, Bulgaria. The 2.0 m Himalayan Chandra Telescope of the Indian Astronomical Observatory...
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    November 2019. "Chandra X-Ray Observatory". Discovery of Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy, May 14, 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2012. "Chandra :: Photo Album ::...
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  • with the launch of new X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, images of galaxy clusters with better spatial resolution have been taken...
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  • consists of a single X-ray telescope with a 12 m focal length, with an effective area of approx. 1.4 m2 (at 1 keV) and a spatial resolution of 5 arcseconds...
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    Trajectory Details (Chandra)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details (Chandra)". NASA. Archived...
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    Daily. August 26, 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-06. Rho, J.; et al. (2004). "Chandra Observation of the Trifid Nebula: X-Ray Emission from the O Star Complex...
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  • Larger arrays may be better for GW detection because the quadrupolar spatial correlations induced by GWs can be better sampled by many more pulsar pairings...
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    trackers are also susceptible to a variety of errors (low spatial frequency, high spatial frequency, temporal, ...) in addition to a variety of optical...
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    Satellites Probe a New Magnetar". www.nasa.gov. "Chandra :: Photo Album :: Westerlund 1 :: 02 Nov 05". chandra.harvard.edu. "Magnetar Formation Mystery Solved...
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    which emits X-rays. The ISM is turbulent and full of structure on all spatial scales. Stars are born deep inside large complexes of molecular clouds...
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    include FLAMES and SINFONI on the Very Large Telescope, but also the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on Chandra X-ray Observatory uses this technique. Soldiers...
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    X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (category Space telescopes)
    observation loss between the current X-ray telescopes (Chandra and XMM-Newton), and those of the future (Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (ATHENA))...
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    Anderson, Janet; Watzke, Megan (5 January 2015). "RELEASE 15-001 – NASA's Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way's Black Hole". NASA. Archived...
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    light-years) from the core, has been tracked by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. By 2006, the X-ray intensity of this knot had...
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    estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses. A survey of the nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the presence of numerous new-born stars...
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  • where they have finished burning hydrogen in their cores TAROT – (telescope) Télescope à Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires TASS – (observing program)...
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    IXPE (category Space telescopes)
    astronomy at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and project scientist for the Chandra X-ray Observatory spacecraft. Other partners include the McGill University...
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    the Chandra X-ray Observatory (1999), and about 1.5 arc minutes in the high energy X-ray (100 keV) range seen by High-Energy Focusing Telescope (2005)...
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    Messier index Crab Nebula in the Chandra X-ray Observatory Field Guide series Crab Nebula images by the Hubble Space Telescope Animation of expansion from...
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    the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer on the Chandra X-ray Observatory, in infrared with the Hubble Space Telescope, and in radio with the Very Long Baseline...
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    strong in radio. It was discovered in X-Ray by Varsha Gupta et al. at the Chandra X-Ray observatory It is also notable for being the first case of a quasar...
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    galaxy has been studied with most of NASA's telescopes, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic...
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    Integral field spectrograph (category Telescopes)
    objects are spatially resolved by large telescopes. For spectroscopic studies, the optimum would then be to get a spectrum for each spatial pixel in the...
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    progenitor supernova happened between 3,000 and 30,000 years ago. Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations identified a plerion nebula, close to the remnant...
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