The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 9. február 2012
Over several years, astronomers have noticed flares in X-ray light from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 1. február 2012
G350.1+0.3 is a young and exceptionally bright supernova remnant located nearly 15,000 light years from Earth toward the center of the Milky Way. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 27. január 2012
Researchers have been traveling for decades to some of the coldest places on the planet to uncover some of the secrets from space that have been left behind on Earth. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 11. január 2012
Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered an extraordinary galaxy cluster some 7.2 billion light years from Earth. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 21. december 2011
The Milky Way galaxy has several small satellite galaxies very close to it. One of them is called the Small Magellanic Cloud. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 14. december 2011
The galaxy cluster Abell 2052 is found some 480 million light years from Earth. At the center of Abell 2052 is a giant elliptical galaxy, and within that is a supermassive black hole. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 9. december 2011
30 Doradus is a place where stars are born literally. This region, which is also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is located about 160,000 light years from Earth. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 18. november 2011
Over three decades ago, Stephen Hawking placed, and eventually lost, a bet against the existence of a black hole in Cygnus X-1. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 2. november 2011
In 185 A.D., Chinese astronomers noted a "guest star" that mysteriously appeared in the sky and stayed for about 8 months. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 26. október 2011
Astronomers have recently completed a large survey of the sky using some of the powerful telescopes both on the ground and in space. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 13. október 2011
G299.2-2.9 is an intriguing supernova remnant found about 16,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 30. september 2011
High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into a galaxy over its lifetime. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 13. september 2011
In recent years, astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 31. august 2011
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 11. august 2011
VV 340, also known as Arp 302, is a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the very early stages of their interaction. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 2. august 2011
The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest sources of high-energy radiation in the sky. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 27. júl 2011
This is NGC 3115, a galaxy located about 32 million light years from Earth. This composite image contains X-rays from Chandra as well as optical data from the Very Large Telescope. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 13. júl 2011
A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail, or is it? Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a long, X-ray bright tail streaming away from the pulsar known as PSR J0357. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 23. jún 2011
One of the most complicated and dramatic collisions ever seen between galaxy clusters is captured in this new composite image. [
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The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD - 17. jún 2011
This image is what is known as the Chandra Deep Field South, a 4-million-second exposure made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. [
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