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House introduces NASA reauthorization bill

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TOKYO — A bipartisan NASA bill would formally authorize several ongoing programs and direct the agency to provide reports on topics ranging from the use of the Space Launch System to maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope. The House Committee on Science leadership released the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024 on July 9, one day … Read more

House Bill Directs NASA to Study Asteroid and Space Debris Missions

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TOKYO — A House of Representatives bill would direct NASA to begin work on an asteroid mission in collaboration with industry, as well as a space debris inspection mission. The House Appropriations Committee released the report accompanying its commerce, justice and science (CJS) spending bill on July 8, a day before a markup by the … Read more

NASA’s Chandra peers at the densest and strangest stars – NASA

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This is an image of the leftovers from an exploded star called 3C 58, shown in X-ray and optical light. At the center of the remnant is a rapidly spinning neutron star, called a pulsar, that presents itself as a bright white object that's somewhat elongated in shape.

The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star at its center, known as PSR J0205+6449. Astronomers have studied this neutron star and others like it to investigate the nature of matter in these very dense objects. A new study, conducted using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s In this image of 3C 58, … Read more

NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope captures the nearest superstar cluster (image)

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It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a super star cluster! NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is “super” in every way. Westerlund 1 is super big, super massive, super young, super close – and it’s creating stars at a super fast pace. Westerlund 1 is about 13,000 light-years away from … Read more

Entering the heat of the moment: NASA’s Chandra checks the habitability of exoplanets

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! This image shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are so close that they could be prime targets for direct searches for planets using future telescopes. The blue halos represent stars observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and … Read more

Enters the Heat of the Battle – NASA’s Chandra Monitors Habitability of Exoplanets – NASA

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This image shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are so close that they could be prime targets for direct searches for planets using future telescopes. The blue halos represent stars observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. The yellow star in the center of this diagram represents the … Read more

‘Super’ star cluster shines in new look of NASA’s Chandra – NASA

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Star Cluster Westerlund 1.

Westerlund 1 is the largest and closest ‘super’ star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra These are the first data released publicly from a project called the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey, or EWOCS, led by astronomers at Italy’s National Institute of Astrophysics in Palermo. As part of EWOCS, Chandra … Read more