The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant has been studied for over 2 million seconds since the Chandra mission began in 1999, with X-rays captured by Chandra (blue) and infrared data from Webb (orange, ...

Chandra launched in 1999 — the ... created by a young star's puffy planet-forming disk, which is not seen in the image. The shadow is enormous — it spans 200 times the diameter of our entire ...

Gas giant planet Jupiter shines in a view that ... Jupiter looks like a striped marble suspended in space in an image that combines Chandra data with infrared data from Hubble.

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful ...

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated ... "In this new composite image, the Chandra data (purple) shows the diffuse X-ray emission and young stars in Cygnus OB2, and infrared data from ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's (European ... the next generation of telescopes aiming to take the first images of planets like Earth. A team of researchers has examined stars ...

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy ...

Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...

The astronomers took the resultant images and "stitched" them ... throughout the region," NASA writes on the Chandra website. The danger to forming planets in densely packed star clusters like ...

The astronomers took the resultant images and "stitched" them together to create ... cooler dust and gas throughout the region," NASA writes on the Chandra website. The danger to forming planets in ...