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Chandra X-Ray Observatory Stuff - Yazata - Feb 24, 2019 It's a NASA satellite that observes the surrounding universe in x-ray wavelengths. That allows it to watch very energetic events like exploding stars and stuff falling into black holes. Here's its primary website: http://chandra.harvard.edu/ There are lots of interesting photos of high-energy astrophysical stuff behind the links on the left hand side of the page here. http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2009/m101/ Here's an interesting seemingly unofficial 'What is Chandra doing right now?' website run by some of the project's astronomers. http://chandraobservatory.herokuapp.com/index.html It seems to currently be running a series of calibration observations, the last 34 minutes ago. RE: Chandra X-Ray Observatory Stuff - Yazata - Feb 24, 2019 (Feb 24, 2019 08:46 PM)Yazata Wrote: Here's an interesting seemingly unofficial 'What is Chandra doing right now?' website run by some of the project's astronomers. Now it's looking at a giant cluster of galaxies and gas called Abell 1763. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aae9e7 https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5753 RE: Chandra X-Ray Observatory Stuff - C C - Feb 26, 2019 Peering an eye at the eye galaxies, now. (Feb 25 tweet) ### |