Meet Chandra—the most sophisticated X-ray telescope in our skies April 9, 2024. Emily Frost. The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope. It has eight-times greater ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images revealed this summer instantly became iconic, but a new team-up with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that despite being the most powerful space ...

This image is NGC 6543 known as the Cat's Eye Nebula as it appears to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope. A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sent back its first images this summer, many of us were gobsmacked at the clarity and beauty of the pictures.But even space telescopes work best with a ...

A new X-ray telescope set to launch this weekend could unveil the structure of spacetime. Rae Hodge. Mon, August 21, 2023 at 11:23 PM UTC. 2 min read.

The eROSITA X-ray telescope, mounted on the space observatory Spektr-RG, launched last July, and finally reached its final position more than 900 million miles from Earth in December, according to ...

The recently discovered cosmic ray — which was first detected on May 27, 2021 at the Telescope Array in Millard County, Utah – had an estimated energy of 240 EeV.

NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don't want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.

And many astronomers are worried about the future of one unique science instrument - the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports on what's at stake.

Scientists in Utah have identified a rare cosmic ray that could've come from beyond the Milky Way. It has been named the "Amaterasu particle" after the Japanese sun goddess. A Telescope Array ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope, now 25, offers a more “complete story of what the universe is doing” It’s not as well known as the Hubble or Webb, but Chandra illuminates high-heat and high ...