Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, Author at Astronomy.com

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System, The Sun

Comets in the “X”-treme

Exotic Objects, Stars

Trigger for Milky Way’s youngest supernova identified

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

Deep-Sky Objects, Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Stars

Banking X-ray data for the future

Exotic Objects, Milky Way

Milky Way’s black hole shows signs of increased chatter

Exotic Objects, Robotic Spaceflight, Stars

Chandra captures X-ray echoes pinpointing distant neutron star

Telescopes set limits on space-time quantum “foam”

Exotic Objects, Stars

Magnetar near supermassive black hole delivers surprises