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The Chandra X-ray Observatory marked its 25th anniversary with a release of never-before-seen images. But budget cuts may cause the observatory’s days to be numbered.
Chandra is sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors. Since the Earth's atmosphere absorbs the vast majority of X-rays , they are not detectable from Earth-based telescopes ; therefore space-based telescopes are required to make these observations.
The elliptical galaxy LEDA 1900245, is the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of RX J1532.9+3021. It has a dimension of around 120.56 kpc (~393,000 light-years) and is a LINER galaxy, meaning a galaxy whose nucleus contains an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weak ion atoms. [8]
The primary objective of the STS-93 mission was to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility) with its Inertial Upper Stage booster. At its launch, Chandra was the most sophisticated X-ray observatory ever built. It is designed to observe X-rays from high energy regions of the universe, such as hot ...
The Chandra X-ray source detected in UHZ1 is Compton-thick. [a] It has a bolometric luminosity of L bol ~ 5 × 10 45 erg s × 10 −1, corresponding to an estimated BH mass of ~ 4 × 10 7 M⊙.
The Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS), formerly the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer, is an instrument built by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research and the Pennsylvania State University for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. ACIS is a focal plane instrument that uses an array of charge-coupled devices.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the third of NASA's four Great Observatories. Chandra X-ray Observatory. Pages in category "Chandra X-ray Observatory" The following ...
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...