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Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers

Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers

Astronomers have gauged how fast a supermassive black hole is spinning inside a ...

Zeta Ophiuchi: A Star With a Complicated Past

Zeta Ophiuchi: A Star With a Complicated Past

Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from...

Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion

Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion

A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hu...

Chandra Sees Stellar X-rays Exceeding Safety Limits

Chandra Sees Stellar X-rays Exceeding Safety Limits

Astronomers have made the most extensive study yet of how magnetically active st...

The Enduring Stellar Lifecycle in 30 Doradus

The Enduring Stellar Lifecycle in 30 Doradus

The "Tarantula Nebula" (officially known as 30 Doradus) is available in a compos...

NASA's Chandra Discovers Giant Black Holes on Collision Course

NASA's Chandra Discovers Giant Black Holes on Collision...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify two pairs of dwarf galaxies on ...

Chandra Determines What Makes a Galaxy's Wind Blow

Chandra Determines What Makes a Galaxy's Wind Blow

NGC 253 shows the effect of powerful winds being launched in opposite directions...

New Stellar Danger to Planets Identified by NASA's Chandra

New Stellar Danger to Planets Identified by NASA's Chandra

Astronomers have determined supernova explosions pose yet another threat to plan...

NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman Cargo Launch to Space Station

NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman Cargo Launch to ...

Media accreditation is open for launch of the next commercial resupply services ...

NASA, Department of Agriculture Advance Exploration, Science

NASA, Department of Agriculture Advance Exploration, Sc...

NASA and the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) signed a memorandum of unders...

NASA to Host X-57 Maxwell Project Update

NASA to Host X-57 Maxwell Project Update

NASA will hold a media teleconference to discuss its X-57 Maxwell all-electric a...

NASA Awards Contract for Earth Radar Data Operations, Management

NASA Awards Contract for Earth Radar Data Operations, M...

NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Alaska, fo...