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This image shows a neutron star -- the core of a star that exploded in a massive supernova. This particular neutron...
A conventional X-ray diffraction instrument left is the size of a large refrigerator, in contrast to the compact...
In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can’t see – from infrared signals...
The blue dots in this field of galaxies, known as the COSMOS field, show galaxies that contain supermassive black...
Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light...
NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Carnegie-Irvine...
This image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631 as seen edge-on from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory...
This image shows the Modulated X-ray Source, a key component in NASA’s first-ever demonstration of X-ray...
This photograph depicts the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) being installed in the X-Ray Calibration Facility (XRCF) vacuum...
Leon Van Speybroeck of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts was awarded the...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active...
To the crystallographer, this may not be a diamond but it is just as priceless. A Lysozyme crystal grown in orbit...
This diagram depicts the sensor head of the Planetary Instrument for X-RAY Lithochemistry, or PIXL, which has been...
X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar Dynamics...
The manta ray-like shape of the X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft was obvious in this underside view as it flew over...
This Chandra image of Jupiter shows concentrations of aurora x-rays near the north and south poles due to a single...
This Chandra image shows the central regions of two colliding galaxies known collectively as the Antennae...
This photograph shows Skylab's Galactic X-Ray Mapping facility (S150), an astrophysics and space sciences...
Edward Snell, a National Research Council research fellow at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), prepares a...
NASA NuSTAR has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way...
In this image of PSR B1509-58 about 170,000 light-years from Earth, X-rays from NASA Chandra in gold are seen along...
This Chandra image, the first x-ray image ever made of Venus, shows a half crescent due to the relative orientation...
University of Alabama engineer Stacey Giles briefs NASA astronaut Dr. Bornie Dunbar about the design and...
University of Alabama engineer Lance Weiss briefs NASA astronaut Dr. Bornie Dunbar about the design and capabilities...