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A Look at the Science and Experiments Flying Aboard Cygnus ‘Deke Slayton II’ to ISS

NASA’s Chandra Observatory Catches Giant Black Hole Rejecting Material

NASA’s Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time

The image on the left contains nearly a million seconds of Chandra's observing of the region around the black hole. The artist illustrations to the right depict an asteroid venturing to close to a black hole, being torn apart by the tidal forces within a 100 million mile distance, and finally being vaporized by friction - creating a flare. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/F. Baganoff et al.; Illustrations: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

NASA’s Chandra Finds Milky Way’s Black Hole Grazing On Asteroids

NASA'S CHANDRA FINDS LARGEST GALAXY CLUSTER IN EARLY UNIVERSE

NASA’S Chandra Finds Largest Cluster in Early Universe

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