This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...

A decade later, the Chandra X-ray observatory began monitoring changes ... may occur no sooner than the 2470s. — What are binary stars? Hubble's latest close-up of the star system shows the ...

About 700 light-years away, a rambunctious binary star system called R Aquarii ... In the years following, the Chandra X-ray Observatory also monitored this region. It studied changes in X-ray ...

Ambitious space missions, like the James Webb Space Telescope and Martian rovers, are helping scientists grasp what's out ...

My research focuses on understanding the stories of binary stars. I use data from both space-based ... collaborators I have studied data from the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, the ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using NASA's space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope ...