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This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...
All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...
The mass spectrometer telescope (MAST) on SAMPEX (Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer) is designed to provide high-resolution measurements of the isotopic composition of energetic ...
The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list ...
What is an abdominal X-ray? X-rays use invisible electromagnetic energy beams to make images of the abdomen. X-rays pass through body tissues onto a special film similar to camera film and make a ...
A potential solution to the decades-long “ missing matter ” problem has been uncovered as astronomers’ recent analysis of X-ray data identifies a filament of hot gas, 10 times the size of the Milky ...
While JAXA's Suzaku X-ray telescope came to the end of its scientific mission in 2015, XMM-Newton remains operational more than a quarter of a century since its launch; a testament to its designers ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected an enormous X-ray jet from quasar J1610+1811, observed at a distance of about 11.6 billion light-years (roughly 3 billion years after the Big Bang). The ...
For the first time, the world's largest network of radio telescopes, EVN, has observed together with South Africa's MeerKAT, the southern hemisphere's most powerful radio telescope.