Tag: Chandra
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XRISM observes windy neutron star, Chandra studies a luminous quasar
Using the joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), scientists uncovered a dense but surprisingly slow wind coming from a neutron star. The finding sheds new light on similar winds blowing from material surrounding supermassive black holes. Another team used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory…
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Chandra helps reveal first-ever observed early-stage galaxy cluster merger
Coming 20 years after the x-ray telescope’s launch, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory has greatly aided an international team of scientists who performed the first-ever observations of the beginning stages of a galaxy cluster merger. Dr. Liyi Gu from RIKEN national science institute in Japan and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, and the first author…