Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Author at Astronomy.com

AstrOlympics blends sports with science

Chandra witnesses the aftermath of a violent stellar merger

Exoplanets, Science, Stars

Smaller stars may not be the best parents for would-be planets

NASA telescopes find clues for how giant black holes formed so quickly

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System, The Sun

Comets in the “X”-treme

Exotic Objects, Stars

Trigger for Milky Way’s youngest supernova identified

Telescopes combine to push frontier on galaxy clusters

Cosmology, Exotic Objects

Big Bang’s glow allows discovery of distant black hole jet

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away

Chandra finds supermassive black hole burping nearby

Chandra finds remarkable galactic ribbon unfurled

Cosmology, Galaxies

Where Alice in Wonderland meets Albert Einstein