Sentences with phrase «x-ray observatory»

Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA, MIT / Baganoff et al, 2001 Larger x-ray image.

Seen at the top left, the Chandra X-ray Observatory's false color view of the Cartwheel galaxy was taken with the S - array on the telescope's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer.

Melissa Weiss, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA — larger illustration.

(Credit: NASA / DOE / Fermi LAT Collaboration, Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA Herschel / XMM - Newton)

This image is a composite, with x-ray energy seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory visible in blue, light seen by Hubble in green and infrared emissions captured by the Spitzer observatory in red.

Kepler's Supernova (Supernova 1604)-- Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have created a stunning new image of one of the youngest supernova remnants in the galaxy.

Observations with NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory have disclosed two giant black holes, about 3,000 light - years apart, which will drift toward one another and eventually merge together into a larger black hole.

Using data from three of NASA's Great Observatories (the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope), scientists have found the best evidence to date that supermassive black holes in the early universe were produced by the direct collapse of a gas cloud.

William Forman, an astrophysicst at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says that since the 1960s, the sensitivity of X-ray telescopes such has the Chandra X-ray Observatory has vastly improved, bringing «a revolution in understanding the high energy universe.

Astronomers have used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to find that dark matter interacts with itself less than previously thought.

Astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, have spotted a fast - moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while firing off a record - breaking jet of high - energy particles — the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy.

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), originally named HELOS, was an X-ray telescope operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.

Right on schedule, a handful of X-rays were detected by NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory nine days after the merger; 16 days post-merger, Caltech assistant professor of astronomy Gregg Hallinan and his colleagues picked up the first radio photons with the Very Large Array, a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Here are images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide.

New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show that the explosion that created the Jellyfish Nebula may have also formed a peculiar object located on the southern edge of the remnant.

At the ongoing 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas, two exciting discoveries involving NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory were announced Thursday.

When the Chandra X-ray observatory followed up the optical counterpart of GW170817 at ~ 2 days post-burst, no X-ray counterpart was detected.

Astronomers produced this dramatic new, highly - detailed image of the Crab Nebula by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the long waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the extremely short waves seen by the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

The GBO wishes to remind proposers of continuing opportunities for joint observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Swift Gamma - Ray Burst Mission and the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.

For example, in 2011, two teams used data from Chandra's X-ray Observatory and other instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope to map the distribution of dark matter in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 383, which is located about 2.3 billion light - years from Earth.

This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 is a composite of views from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Chandra X-ray Observatory.

When they turned X-ray telescopes, such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, toward these clusters, they did indeed find vast clouds of superheated gas.

Flagship missions such as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory occur about twice per decade and produce outstanding science that defines substantive new areas of research in astronomy.

In 2005, astronomers announced that GRB 050709 and GRB 050509B may be have created by collisions involving two neutron stars (more from Chandra X-Ray Observatory) and ESO), but that the presence of a second flare by GRB 050724 was more likely to have been produced by a neutron star's merger with a black hole (ESO).

This new composite image of stellar cluster NGC 1333 combines X-rays from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink); inf... view image

The measurement of hot gas pressure in galactic clusters has shown that there must be about five to six times as much dark matter as all the stars and gas we observe [source: Chandra X-ray Observatory].

Solar activity can prompt a massive increase in the intensity of Jupiter's polar aurorae, according to a new study drawing on data collected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the VLA to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in the Milky Way.

The Chandra X-ray observatory detected a halo of hot blue gas around galaxy NGC 5746.

Astronomical instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have uncovered evidence that very first stars may have burst into the universe more intensely and spectacularly than previously theorized.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

NASA, CXC, and SAO (larger x-ray image) Sirius B is a much brighter source of x-rays than Sirius A. For more information, see the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's photo album and an Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Abstract: The Chandra X-ray Observatory has now discovered nearly 10,000 X-ray point sources in the 2 x 0.8 degree region around the Galactic Center (Muno 2009).

A composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 showing X-ray emission observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory... view image

The $ 273 million x-ray observatory was equipped with state - of - the - art instruments that NASA helped design; the tools were sensitive enough to probe distant mysteries of the cosmos.

Figure 1 Composite image showing how powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster inflated huge «bubbles» in the hot, ionized gas surrounding the galaxy (the cavities inside the blue region imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory).

Abstract: We have conducted a near - infrared spectroscopic survey of 47 candidate counterparts to X-ray sources discovered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory near the Galactic Center (GC).

«Other missions like NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton looked at the Perseus cluster before, but their instruments didn't have sufficient energy resolution to study the dynamics of the intergalactic medium,» said Stanford University postdoctoral researcher Irina Zhuravleva in a press release.

The discovery was made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which detected X-ray emissions believed to have been produced when the pulsar's wind rammed into the material of the disk.

It is the second of four in a NASA series of large orbiting observatories, observing in the visible light, together with the Compton Gamma Ray Telescope (CGRO) observing in Gamma - ray light, the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) observing in Infrared.

As a result, we're rewriting the textbooks today with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and... the James Webb Space Telescope.»

Geminga pulsar, imaged in X-ray wavelengths by the Earth - orbiting XMM - Newton X-ray observatory.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have identified 152 X-ray sources, including 95 new young stellar objects (YSOs) in Serpens South star - forming cluster.

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), developed by the European Space Agency, was capable of greater spectral resolution than the Einstein Observatory and was more sensitive to X-ray emissions at shorter wavelengths.

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low - mass star and a black hole.

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar...

X-ray astronomy has its equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

These are recent discoveries, made possible in the past two decades by improved ground and space - based instruments such as NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Galaxy Evolution Explorer, and the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.