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Loading contentAstronomy · Space Telescopes
NASA's window onto the high-energy X-ray universe.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory detects X-ray light, which is produced by some of the hottest and most violent processes in the universe. Earth's atmosphere blocks X-rays, so this work must be done from orbit.
Chandra studies material falling toward black holes, the glowing remnants of supernovae, and vast clouds of hot gas in galaxy clusters — phenomena largely invisible to optical telescopes.
Chandra is named for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose theoretical work helped explain the fate of dying stars, including the formation of white dwarfs and the limits that lead to black holes.
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