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... , using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) Observatory. The students had located a point-like source of x-rays embedded in a supernova and had ...

... SIRTF was the fourth and final of NASA's Great Observatories, following the Hubble Space Telescope HST , the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , and the Chandra X-ray Observatory . NASA had designed the 110-pound (50-kilogram), 33 ... objects. SIRTF would study some of the same deep space objects as the other Great Observatories, as well as studying other parts of the cosmos. Michael Jura, SIRTF interdisciplinary scientist for ...

... theorized the existence of such an event. Using observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting observatory, an international team of scientists had discovered a star that had been ... York Times, 19 February 2004; Stefanie Komossa, Jules P. Halpern, and Suvi Gezari, “Follow-up Chandra Observations of Three Candidate Tidal Disruption Events,” Astrophysical Journal 604, no. 2 (1 April 2004 ...

... RELEASE: 12-151 OVERFED BLACK HOLES SHUT DOWN GALACTIC STAR-MAKING'' WASHINGTON -- The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer ... . The researchers compared their infrared readings with X-rays streaming from the active central black holes in the survey's galaxies, measured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. At lower intensities, the black holes' brightness ...

... Earth, was detected using the 11.8-foot (3.6-meter) telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile. Bespin's atmospheric layers include a band of breathable air, ideal for floating ... last bits of a small planet in 2015, observed with the help of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. White dwarfs are super-dense stellar remnants about the size of Earth, but with gravity ... in the act of feeding inside a star cluster on the Milky Way's rim. X-ray observations, however, matched theoretical models of a planet being torn apart by a white dwarf ...

... for international media access to the Air Force station has passed for this event. '''Hubble, Chandra, Jansky VLA Telescopes Collaborate on Galaxy Cluster''' In October 2013 Hubble kicked off the Frontier ... observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (showing the galaxies and stars), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (diffuse emission in blue), and the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink ...

... . Clouds of hot, X-ray emitting intergalactic gas, however, plow into one another, slow down, and lag behind the impact. That theory was supported by visible-light and X-ray observations of a colossal ... , which normally would be seen in the same location as the dark matter. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was used to detect the hot gas. Astronomers used the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and ...

... and life skills while motivating young people to pursue academic opportunities. ---- ''Exoplanets, Dwarf Stars, Gamma-Ray Flashes, New Images Among NASA News Highlights At American Astronomical Society Meeting '' WASHINGTON -- NASA researchers ... stars, gamma-ray flashes and black holes. New images released from missions including the Hubble Space Telescope; the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE; the Chandra X-ray Observatory; and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

... for this day. (1MB PDF) NASA announced that the Chandra X-ray Observatory had detected iron-emission lines in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), marking the first time such lines had been ... GRBs, and the first time scientists had been able to measure their properties precisely in x-ray wavelengths. Luigi Piro, lead author of a paper published in the 3 November issue of ...

... project. Other projects were experiencing cost overruns also, such as the US$1.5 billion Chandra X-ray Observatory, which needed an extra US$60 million to cover last-minute development problems. NASA intended ... redirect some funds from Space Technology 4 to other missions experiencing funding difficulties, such as Chandra. May 1999 May June 1999 June Jun 1 1999 1 Jun 2 1999 2 Jun ...

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