An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
A collection of multimedia, illustrations & animations, a glossary, FAQ & more.
A collection of illustrations, animations and video.
Chandra discoveries in an audio/video format.
Chandra Images by Date: 2009
26 Jun 09
A supernova remnant in the Milky Way, about 8,200 light years from Earth.
24 Jun 09
Giant reservoirs of hydrogen gas about 10 billion light years away.
09 Jun 09
A supernova remnant located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 190,000 light years from Earth.
28 May 09
A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy, about 10 billion light years away.
14 May 09
A galaxy, about 600 million light years away, with a supermassive black hole at its center.
29 Apr 09
A ridge-like structure near the center of the Milky Way of X-ray emission discovered by earlier telescopes.
16 Apr 09
One of the most complex galaxy clusters, located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth.
03 Apr 09
(B1509)
A 1700-year-old pulsar and its nebula, located about 17,000 light years from Earth.
25 Mar 09
A stellar-mass black hole with about 14 times the Sun’s mass in the Milky Way.
11 Mar 09
A galaxy lies about 110 million light years away
26 Feb 09
The oldest pulsar detected in X-rays at a distance of about 770 light years from Earth.
18 Feb 09
The hot, expanding debris of a supernova observed in 1572.
10 Feb 09
A face-on spiral galaxy about 22 million light years from Earth.
30 Jan 09
An active galaxy at a distance of 10 million light years from Earth.
27 Jan 09
The largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33
06 Jan 09
The supernova remnant that was Chandra's "First Light" has been observed over time.
06 Jan 09
A multiwavelength three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of a supernova remnant has been created.