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The INTEGRAL spacecraft witnesses the eruption of a gamma-ray burst.April 1990, STS-31 deploys Hubble
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Hubble Space Telescope
Learn how Hubble has expanded our knowledge of the cosmos.
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Spitzer Space Telescope
Spitzer will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space.
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 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory probes the mysteries of space with unprecedented x-ray images that help to unravel the structure and evolution of the universe.
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 A graphic showing stellar gas swirling into an accretion disk.
Clues to Black Hole Growth Beginning to Add Up
A team of Chandra scientists have discovered how magnetic fields are powering black hole accretion disks.
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 Twin gas bubbles surround a black hole.
Star Power: Black Holes Are Fuel-Efficient
Chandra scientists announce black holes are the most fuel-efficient 'engines' in the universe.
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 Double Helix Nebula
Odd Twist Near Milky Way Center
Using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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New Map of Milky Way Reveals Millions of Unseen Objects
Scientists have determined the Milky Way's background emanates from untold hundreds of millions of individual sources dominated by a type of dead star called a white dwarf.
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 06.21.06 - NASA's Chandra Solves Black Hole Paradox
Black holes light up the universe and astronomers may finally know how, based on new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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 06.16.06 - NASA to Announce Answer to Black Hole Paradox
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory for research are hosting a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 21, to explain how black holes light up the universe.
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Black Holes
Regions of space with such strong gravitational force that nothing can escape from them.
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 Objects spinning around a black hole at incredible speed.
The Grip of Gravity
Scientists make three new black hole discoveries.
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 Image of gamma-ray burst afterglow.
Swift Gets Down to Business
The spacecraft sees its first gamma-ray bursts.
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