The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

114, No. 791, January 2002 An Overview of the Performance and Scien... An Overview of the Performance and Scientific Results from the Chandra X‐Ray Observatory This is the metadata section. Skip to ...

Scientists and engineers designed the Chandra X-ray Observatory to detect these X-rays. Since 1999, Chandra’s data has given astronomers incredibly detailed images of some of the universe’s ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrated its 25th anniversary in stunning style. The space agency released 25 never-before-seen images from the space telescope on Tuesday. The views span the ...

When a black hole upchucks, it takes out everything for thousands of lightyears, as NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory just showed. As the premiere X-ray observation device in low-Earth Orbit ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a plasma jet from a supermassive black hole interacting with an unidentified object in the Centaurus A galaxy. This finding offers new insights into ...