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NASA Facts: Chandra
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world's most powerful X-ray telescope. It has eight-times greater resolution and is able to detect sources more than 20-times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope.
Chandra Latest News
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Carbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
11.04.09 - Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant.
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Carbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
11.04.09 - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found evidence for a veil of carbon on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, resolving a 10-year mystery.
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FASTSAT Instruments Shipped to NASA Marshall for Tests and Launch Preparation
10.26.09 - Three of the satellite instruments that will fly on "FASTSAT" have arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. for further testing.
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Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record
10.22.09 - The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes.
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Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record
10.22.09 - The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered -- about 10.2 billion light years away.
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NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Arrives at Launch Pad in Florida
10.20.09 - The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad atop of a giant crawler-transporter at approximately 7:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
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Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves
10.19.09 - NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team have started cooking up a way to extract water from lunar soil.
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NASA’s Marshall Center Completes Successful Ullage Motor Development Test For Ares I Rocket
10.08.09 - NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground.
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NASA Tests Load Limits for Ares I Rocket Main Parachute
10.08.09 - NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground.
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May the Best 'Bot Win: NASA's Marshall Center to Sponsor Four Teams of Student Inventors for 2009-2010 First Robotics Competition
09.28.09 - The Marshall Center will sponsor four enterprising high school teams that will design and build functioning robots to compete in the 17th annual FIRST Robotics Competition.
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NASA, Partners Celebrate First Anniversary of Vital Air Quality Communications Resource in Mesoamerica, Caribbean
09.15.09 - NASA and its partners today celebrate the first anniversary of the air quality initiative within SERVIR that delivers air quality data throughout Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.
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Marshall Engineer among NASA Workers to Join President Obama, NASA Administrator Bolden for Live Education Webcasts Sept. 8
09.04.09 - On Tuesday, Sept. 8, Marshall Center engineer Chris Randall will join NASA Administrator Charles Bolden for a live Webcast to classrooms nationwide.
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Trigger-Happy Star Formation
08.12.09 - A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born.
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NASA Celebrates Chandra's 10th Anniversary
07.23.09 - Ten years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit.
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Galaxies Coming of Age in Cosmic Blobs
06.23.09 - The "coming of age" of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed thanks to new data from Chandra.