Chandra :: Photo Album

Chandra Photo Album :: Recent Discoveries

A Nearby Galaxy Metropolis - (Found August 15, 2008 )

This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the giant elliptical galaxy, M87. M87 lies at a distance of 60 million light years and is the largest galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/m87/

Oldest Known Objects May Be Surprisingly Immature - (Found August 15, 2008 )

These are Chandra X-ray Observatory images of the centers of two globular clusters, NGC 6397 and NGC 6121, located in the Milky Way galaxy.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/gclust/

Discovery of Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy - (Found August 15, 2008 )

The expanding remains of a supernova explosion in the Milky Way are shown in this composite image of the supernova remnant G1.9+0.3.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/g19/

Supernova Caught in Act of Exploding - (Found August 15, 2008 )

On January 9, 2008, NASA's Swift satellite was used to fortuitously observe a very bright X-ray outburst in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, located 90 million light-years from Earth.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/sn2008d/

A Mixed Bag - (Found August 15, 2008 )

When some stars die, they explode as supernovas and their debris fields (aka, "supernova remnants") expand into the surrounding environments.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/w28/

Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits - (Found August 15, 2008 )

The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/m81/

Liberating Star Stuff - (Found August 15, 2008 )

Just over a thousand years ago, the stellar explosion known as supernova SN 1006 was observed.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/sn1006c/

A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes - (Found August 15, 2008 )

This is a composite image of the giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649, located about 51 million light years from Earth.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/ngc4649/

The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux - (Found August 15, 2008 )

This composite of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope is a new look for NGC 6543, better known as the Cat's Eye nebula.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/catseye/

Energetic Jets from a Budding Solar System - (Found August 15, 2008 )

The image on the left from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the first double-sided X-ray jet ever detected from a young star.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/dgtau/