The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD
By cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu (Chandra webmaster)
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High definition views of Chandra's exciting science
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue | This new trio of sonifications represents different aspects of black holes. | 5/9/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Pinpoint Free-Roaming Massive Black Hole | Astronomers have discovered a black hole has torn apart a star in a surprising location. | 5/8/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoTour: Mysterious X-ray Signal in Dying Star Points to Destroyed Planet | Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes. | 5/1/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Releases New 3D Models of Cosmic Objects | New three-dimensional (3D) models of objects in space have been released by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 3D models allow people to explore – and print – examples of stars in the early and end stages of their lives. | 4/16/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoTour: Finding Clues in the Ruins of an Ancient Dead Star | People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology in space. | 3/27/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoTour: X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds | After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: the old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. | 3/4/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Deliver Stellar Bouquet in Time for Valentine's Day | A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. | 2/12/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoTour: Black Holes Can Cook for Themselves, Chandra Study Shows | Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals. | 1/27/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoTour: Exoplanets Need to be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds | Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton that examined the effects of X-rays on potential planets around the most common type of st | 1/16/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoTour: NASA Missions Spot Cosmic 'Wreath' Displaying Stellar Circle of Life | Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is fitting then that one of the best places for astronomers to learn more about the stellar lifecycle resembles a giant holiday wreath itself. | 12/17/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Sees Black Hole Jet Stumble Into Something in the Dark | Astronomers have found an unusual mark from a giant black hole's powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path. | 12/10/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra, Hubble Tune Into 'Flame-Throwing' Guitar Nebula | Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a "flame-throwing guitar" has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA's Chandra and Hubble. | 11/20/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoTour: Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster | Astronomers used Chandra, in combination with ultraviolet, optical and infrared data, to show where some of the most treacherous places in a star cluster may be, where planets' chances to form are diminished. | 10/28/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoTour: Black Hole Destroys Star and Goes After Another | A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star or smaller black hole that used to be in the clear. | 10/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster That Crosses the Streams | A galaxy has streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that "crossing the streams" does not necessarily end in disaster. In fact, it may lead to the creation of new structures. | 9/19/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoTour: New NASA Sonifications Listen to the Universe's Past | Sonifications of three images have been released to mark the 25th anniversary of Chandra's "First Light" image. | 8/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole's Snack Schedule | A team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material. | 8/14/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoTour: 25 Images to Celebrate Chandra's 25th Anniversary | To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects. | 7/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoTour: Take a Summer Road Trip Through Images with NASA's Chandra, Webb | It's time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope. | 7/11/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars | A new study using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton reveals that the interiors of neutron stars may contain a type of ultra-dense matter not found anywhere else in the Universe. | 6/20/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoTour: Coming in Hot: NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets | A study with Chandra and XMM-Newton indicates which stars near our Sun could have habitable exoplanets around them based on whether they receive lethal radiation from the stars they orbit. | 6/12/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoTour: 'Super' Star Cluster Shines in New Look From NASA's Chandra | Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth. New data is helping astronomers delve deeper into this galactic factory where stars are vigorously being produced. | 6/4/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoTour: Spotted: 'Death Star' Black Holes in Action | Astronomers studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams, or jets, into space. They found that about a third of these have changed directions by large amounts. | 5/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting | Eruptions from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* may have created an exhaust vent attached to a "chimney" of hot gas blowing away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy. | 5/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits | New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — include X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the remains of two massive stars in our galaxy. | 4/24/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoTour: Travel Through Data From Space in New 3D Instagram Experiences | A new project provides special 3D experiences on Instagram using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes through augmented reality (AR), allowing users to travel virtually through objects in space. | 4/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole | A brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterparts in other galaxies. | 3/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoTour: Listen to the Universe: New NASA Sonifications and Documentary | Three new sonifications of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been released in conjunction with a new documentary about the project that makes its debut on the NASA+ streaming platform. | 2/28/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoTour: Stellar Beads on a String | Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling "beads on a string." | 2/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoTour: Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick | The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football. | 2/8/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoTour: Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years | These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies. | 1/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Chase Down "Green Monster" in Star's Debris | For the first time scientists have combined the powers of NASA's Chandra and Webb Space Telescopes to study the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, helping to solve the mystery behind the remnant's "Green Monster". | 1/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars | A group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating companion stars within their reach. | 11/30/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole | Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb telescopes. | 11/6/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoTour: X-ray Telescopes Reveal the "Bones" of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand | Chandra's data of MSH 15-52 have been combined with data from NASA's newest X-ray telescope, IXPE to unveil the magnetic field "bones" of this remarkable structure. | 10/30/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoTour: Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840s | Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new details about an eruption from Eta Carinae witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century. | 9/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoTour: A Fab Five: New Images With NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory | A new collection of stunning images highlights data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. | 9/13/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoTour: A Giant Black Hole Destroys a Massive Star | Astronomers using NASA's Chandra, ESA's XMM-Newton, and other telescopes have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space. | 8/22/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoTour: Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered | Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy cluster with an important quality — providing insight into how these gigantic structures formed and why the universe looks like it does in the present day. | 7/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoTour: Cosmic Harmonies: Sonifications From NASA Telescopes | Three new 'sonifications' of NASA data have been released: R Aquarii, Stephan’s Quintet, and M10. | 6/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoTour: Galaxies Go on a Deep Dive and Leave Fiery Tail Behind | The NGC 4839 group of galaxies is plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an extraordinary tail of superheated gas. | 6/6/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views | Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster. | 5/23/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoTour: 'H' is for Hot and Huge in Chandra Image | With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of a massive elliptical galaxy is making a mark on its surroundings. | 5/4/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoTour: New Stellar Danger to Planets Identified by NASA's Chandra | Astronomers have identified a new threat to life on planets like Earth: a phase during which intense X-rays from exploded stars can affect planets over 100 light-years away. | 4/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoTour: Chandra Determines What Makes a Galaxy's Wind Blow | Data from Chandra show the effects of powerful winds launched from the center of a nearby galaxy. | 3/29/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoTour: Chandra Helps Astronomers Discover a Surprisingly Lonely Galaxy | A distant – and lonely – galaxy appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former companion galaxies. | 3/8/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Discovers Giant Black Holes on Collision Course | A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has tracked two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses. | 2/22/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoTour: Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters | Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and a trio of radio telescopes are helping astronomers sort out what is happening in this jumbled scene. | 1/30/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoTour: Astronomers Dig Out Buried Black Holes With NASA's Chandra | A new survey using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered hundreds of previously "hidden" black holes. | 1/11/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoTour: Chandra Sees Stellar X-rays Exceeding Safety Limits | A new study provides insight into how X-rays from stars like our Sun, but billions of years younger, could partially or completely evaporate the atmospheres of planets orbiting them. | 12/15/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoTour: Astronomers See Stellar Self-Control in Action | A study of RCW 36 shows that stars in a cluster can limit how many new stars form when the biggest and brightest members expel most of the gas from the system, thus drastically slowing down star birth. | 11/29/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoTour: Hot Jupiters | Planets can force their host stars to act younger than their age, according to a new study of multiple systems using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 11/2/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster Collision on a "WHIM" | A new result from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory about a system of colliding galaxy clusters may help explain this shortfall. | 10/13/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Adds X-ray Vision to Webb Images | New versions of images combining Webb infrared data with X-rays collected by Chandra underscore how the power of any of these telescopes is only enhanced when joined with others. | 10/4/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoTour: Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion | It is often difficult to determine the timeline of the star's demise. By studying the spectacular remains of a supernova using NASA telescopes, a team has found enough clues to help wind back the clock. | 9/9/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoTour: NASA Telescopes Capture Stellar Delivery Service for Black Hole | Astronomers may have witnessed a smaller galaxy colliding with a larger spiral galaxy and delivering a supermassive black hole. | 8/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoTour: Embracing a Rejected Star | Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helps tell more of the story of this runaway star. | 7/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoTour: Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than Its Peers | Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine the spin of the black hole in H1821+643, making it the most massive one to have an accurate measurement of this fundamental property. | 6/30/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Catches Pulsar in X-ray Speed Trap | A young pulsar is blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster is one of the fastest objects of its kind ever seen. | 6/15/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | VideoTour: Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science | A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the Universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. | 6/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoTour: Sagittarius A* | As the Event Horizon Telescope was collecting data for its remarkable new image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a legion of other telescopes, including Chandra, was also watching. | 5/12/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoTour: New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix | Two new sonifications of black holes released by NASA. | 5/4/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoTour: Black Holes Raze Thousands of Stars to Fuel Growth | A new survey of over 100 galaxies by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered signs that black holes are demolishing thousands of stars in a quest to pack on weight. | 4/20/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoTour: Feasting Black Holes Caught in Galactic Spiderweb | Data from Chandra reveal feasting and growing black holes throughout the cosmic web that surrounds a central galaxy. | 3/31/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoTour: Tiny Star Unleashes Gargantuan Beam of Matter and Antimatter | A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. | 3/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | VideoTour: The Unfolding Story of a Kilonova Told in X-rays | A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. | 2/28/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | VideoTour: An Expanse of Light | A new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with those from other telescopes. | 2/2/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | VideoTour: Visualization Explores A Massive Star's Great Eruption | A new astronomical visualization from NASA's Universe of Learning showcases the multiwavelength emissions and 3D structures surrounding Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and eruptive stars in our galaxy. | 1/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoTour: "Mini" Monster Black Hole Could Hold Clues to Giant's Growth | Chandra has detected X-rays from the dwarf galaxy Mrk 462, revealing the presence of a growing supermassive black hole. | 1/10/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoTour: Astronomers Spy Quartet of Cavities From Giant Black Holes | Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 12/16/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoTour: Planetary Nebula: Misnamed but Not Misunderstood | A new collection of planetary nebulas containing X-rays from Chandra and optical light from Hubble. | 12/6/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | VideoTour : Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick | New data suggest a white dwarf is blasting a companion object, either a low-mass star or planet, with waves of heat and radiation while pulling it apart through gravitational force. | 11/11/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | VideoTour: Chandra Sees Evidence for Possible Planet in Another Galaxy | Astronomers have found evidence for a possible planet candidate in the M51 ("Whirlpool") galaxy, representing what could be the first planet detected outside of the Milky Way. | 10/25/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | VideoTour: When a Stable Star Explodes | Studies of the elements left behind by explosions like this are some of the best tools available to scientists to better understand the details of Type Ia supernovas. | 10/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | VideoTour: Jingle, Pluck, and Hum: Sounds from Space | A "sonification" project led by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Universe of Learning transforms otherwise inaudible data from some of the world's most powerful telescopes into sound. | 9/16/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | VideoTour: Huge Rings Around a Black Hole | A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. | 8/5/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoTour: Chandra Catches Slingshot During Collision | Galaxy clusters are the titans of the Universe. A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory examines the repercussions after two galaxy clusters clashed. | 7/15/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoTour: Cosmic Hand Hitting a Wall | Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 6/24/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | VideoTour: Super Flares | The largest survey ever of star-forming regions in X-rays outlines the link between very powerful flares and the impact they could have on planets in orbit around them. | 6/16/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | VideoTour: A New Panorama of Our Galactic Center | A new panorama from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope provides a stunning view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. | 5/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | VideoTour: Chandra Discoveries in 3D Available on New Platform | A collection of 3D computer models and prints is now available on a new platform from the Smithsonian Institution. This will provide greater access to these resources for libraries, museums, scientists, and the public. | 5/20/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 82 | VideoTour: Cassiopeia A | Astronomers have discovered an important type of titanium blasting out from the center of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a result that could be a major advance in understanding how some massive stars explode. | 4/21/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 83 | VideoTour: M87 in Different Wavelengths of Light | In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told. | 4/14/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | VideoTour: Uranus | Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 3/31/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | VideoTour: Data Sonification: Stellar, Galactic, and Black Hole Tones | As part of our ongoing data sonification series, three new images have now been released. | 3/24/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | VideoTour: PJ352-15 | Astronomers may have found the most distant supermassive black hole with a jet detected in X-rays using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 3/9/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | VideoTour: Supernova 1987A Pulsar Wind Nebula | Astronomers have found evidence for the existence of a neutron star at the center of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), which scientists have been seeking for over three decades. | 2/23/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | VideoTour: Sagittarius A East | Astronomers have found evidence for an unusual type of supernova near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. | 2/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | VideoTour: Triple Galaxy Mergers | When three galaxies collide, what happens to the central black holes growing at the cores of each? | 1/14/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | VideoTour: Chandra Studies Extraordinary Magnetar | In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar. | 1/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | VideoTour: On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole | Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found. | 12/17/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | VideoTour: Data Sonification: A New Cosmic Triad of Sound | A new trio of examples of 'data sonification' from NASA missions provides a new method to enjoy an arrangement of cosmic objects. | 11/30/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | VideoTour: A Cosmic Amethyst in a Dying Star | Astronomers using Chandra have found a bubble of ultra-hot gas at the center of a planetary nebula in our galaxy called IC 4593. | 11/12/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | VideoTour: Assessing The Habitability of Planets Around Old Red Dwarfs | A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are planets that orbit the most common type of stars in the Galaxy? | 10/30/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | VideoTour: Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical for GPS, Seen in Distant Stars | What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? | 10/22/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | VideoTour: The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets | Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not. | 10/14/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | VideoTour: Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way | By turning Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer images into sounds, a new project allows users to 'listen' to the center of the Milky Way and other objects. | 9/22/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | VideoTour: NASA's Chandra Opens Treasure Trove of Cosmic Delights | Humanity has "eyes" that can detect all different types of light through telescopes around the globe and a fleet of observatories in space. From radio waves to gamma rays, this multiwavelength approach to astronomy is crucial to getting a complete under | 9/2/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | VideoTour: Kepler's Supernova Remnant | A new sequence of Chandra images, taken over nearly a decade and a half, captures motion in Kepler's supernova remnant. | 8/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | VideoTour: Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job | Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. | 8/3/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 101 | VideoA Tour of Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity | Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another. | 7/15/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 102 | VideoA Tour of X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days | By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline for when stars like the Sun start blasting high-energy radiation into space. | 6/18/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 103 | VideoA Tour of a New Galactic Center Adventure in Virtual Reality | By combining data from telescopes with supercomputer simulations and virtual reality (or "VR"), a new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. | 6/2/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 104 | VideoA Tour of a Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video | Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. | 5/29/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 105 | VideoA Tour of Bending the Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters | Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. | 5/11/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 106 | VideoA Tour of a Star Survives Close Call with a Black Hole | Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell the tale through exclamations of X-rays. | 4/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 107 | VideoA Tour of the Universe's Expansion May Not Be The Same In All Directions | One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton is challenging that basic notion. | 4/8/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 108 | VideoA Tour of Chandra Data Tests "Theory of Everything" | Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made one of the first experimental tests of string theory, a set of models intended to tie together all known forces, particles, and interactions. | 3/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 109 | VideoA Tour of the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen in the Universe | Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe in a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away. | 2/27/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 110 | VideoA Tour of a Cosmic Jekyll and Hyde | Astronomers have spotted a double star system is flip-flopping between two alter egos using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. | 2/20/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 111 | VideoA Tour of 3D Visualizations | These six visualizations represent work to explore rich datasets from powerful telescopes, like Chandra, by developing three-dimensional simulations. | 1/29/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 112 | VideoA Tour of the Black Hole Jet in M87 | Astronomers have shown that the famous black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles faster than 99% of the speed of light using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 1/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 113 | VideoA Tour of the Crab Nebula 3D Visualization | Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined X-ray, visible, and infrared wavelengths to create a 3D representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula. | 1/5/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 114 | VideoA Tour of Galaxy Gathering Brings Warmth | Two groups of galaxies located about 380 million light years from Earth are slamming into each other at about 4 million miles per hour. | 12/17/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 115 | VideoA Tour of a Positive Feedback Black Hole | Astronomers have uncovered a black hole that may have sparked the birth of stars over a phenomenal distance of more than a million light years and across multiple galaxies. | 11/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 116 | VideoA Tour of the Phoenix Cluster | Scientists have found stars forming at a furious rate in the Phoenix galaxy cluster. The supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy clusters usually stifles star formation, but the one in Phoenix is not. | 11/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 117 | VideoA Tour of a Collision Between Four Galaxy Clusters in Abell 1758 | When two pairs of galaxy clusters collide, the result is not four separate objects, but one giant galaxy cluster. | 10/24/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 118 | VideoA Tour of Tycho's Supernova Remnant | A new image of the Tycho supernova remnant from Chandra reveals an intriguing pattern of bright clumps and fainter holes giving clues about its origin. | 10/17/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 119 | VideoA Tour of Triplet Black Holes | A study using data from Chandra and other telescopes provides the strongest evidence yet for three supermassive black holes on a collision course. | 9/25/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 120 | VideoA Tour of GSN 069 | Astronomers found X-ray bursts repeating about every nine hours coming from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy GSN 069. | 9/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 121 | VideoA Tour of the Latest Look at "First Light" from Chandra | Over its two decades in space, Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured many spectacular images of cosmic phenomena. But perhaps its most iconic is the supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A. | 8/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 122 | VideoA Tour of PSO167-13 | Found at a time only about 850 million years after the Big Bang, this black hole could help us better understand an important epoch in the history of the Universe. | 8/8/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 123 | VideoFirst Light: Celebrating 20 Years of Chandra Observatory | A scientific and engineering marvel, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spent two decades (so far) exploring the cosmos unlike any other telescope. What it has found will astound you. | 7/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 124 | VideoA Tour of Chandra Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary | To commemorate the 20th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, an assembly of new images has been released. | 7/23/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 125 | VideoA Tour of Lensed Quasars | Astronomers have deployed a new technique to measure the spin of five supermassive black holes. | 7/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 126 | VideoA Tour of the Coma Cluster | Does the Gas in Galaxy Clusters Flow Like Honey? Researchers used a deep Chandra dataset to study how the hot gas in the cluster behaves. | 6/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 127 | VideoA Tour of Mrk 1216 | A galaxy that has been isolated for billions of years has been found to have more dark matter in its core than expected. | 6/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 128 | VideoA Tour of the Fornax Cluster | Scientists have found evidence that pairs of stars have been kicked out of their host galaxies. | 5/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 129 | VideoA Tour of a New Signal for a Neutron Star Collision Discovered | A bright blast of X-rays from a source in a distant galaxy has led astronomers to a fascinating discovery. | 4/16/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 130 | VideoA Tour of the Galactic Center Visualization | A new visualization provides viewers with an immersive, 360-degree, ultra-high-definition view of the center of our Galaxy. | 3/21/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 131 | VideoA Tour of the Teacup | Fancy a cup of cosmic tea? This one isn't as calming as the ones on Earth. In a galaxy hosting a structure nicknamed the "Teacup," a galactic storm is raging. | 3/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 132 | VideoA Tour of NGC 3079 Superbubbles | The galaxy NGC 3079, located about 67 million light years from Earth, contains two /"superbubbles/" unlike anything here on our planet. | 2/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 133 | VideoA Tour of Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass? | Astronomers have used Chandra to possibly identify the location of a third of the normal matter in the Universe created in the first billion years or so after the Big Bang. | 2/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 134 | VideoA Tour of the Dark Energy Quasar Survey | Dark energy, a proposed force or energy that permeates all space and accelerates the Universe's expansion, may vary over time. | 1/29/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 135 | VideoA Tour of Cygnus A | A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 1/10/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 136 | VideoA Tour of ASASSN14-li | A tidal disruption event in a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth. | 1/9/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 137 | VideoA Tour of Archival Images | A collection of images including Chandra data that range in object type and distance. | 12/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 138 | VideoA Tour of Abell 1033 | Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise, an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise. | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 139 | VideoA Tour of Kes 75 | Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy. This result could provide astronomers new information about how some stars end their lives. | 10/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 140 | VideoA Tour of GRB 150101B | A distant cosmic relative to the first source that astronomers detected in both gravitational waves and light may have been discovered. | 10/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 141 | VideoA Tour of Abell 2142 | Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make heads and tails of a fascinating galactic system. | 9/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 142 | VideoA Tour of Ring Galaxy AM 0644-741 | Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy 300 million light years from Earth. | 9/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 143 | VideoA Tour of COSMOS Legacy Survey | These Chandra data have provided strong evidence for the existence of so-called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). | 8/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 144 | VideoA Tour of RW Aur A | Chandra data indicates that a young star has likely destroyed and consumed an infant planet. | 7/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 145 | VideoA Tour of Mrk 1216 | Astronomers using Chandra found that black holes may have squelched star formation in small, yet massive galaxies known as "red nuggets". | 6/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 146 | VideoA Tour of Alpha Centauri | A new study of Alpha Centauri indicates that any planets orbiting the two brightest stars are likely not being pummeled by large amounts of X-ray radiation from their host stars. | 6/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 147 | VideoA Tour of GW170817 | A new study using Chandra data of GW170817 indicates that the event that produced gravitational waves likely created the lowest mass black hole known. | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 148 | VideoA Tour of E0102 | Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy. | 5/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 149 | VideoA Tour of the Sagittarius A* Black Hole Swarm | Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. | 5/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 150 | VideoA Tour of NGC 6231 | By studying young clusters, astronomers hope to learn more about how stars-- including our Sun--are born | 5/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 151 | VideoA Tour of the Cold Front in the Perseus Cluster | A gigantic and resilient "cold front" hurtling through the Perseus galaxy cluster has been studied using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 4/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 152 | VideoA Tour of the Crab Nebula | A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra, optical data from Hubble, and infrared data from Spitzer. | 3/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 153 | VideoA Tour of Black Hole Growth in Chandra Deep Field South | Two groups of scientists, using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, have found evidence that the growth of the biggest black holes in the Universe is outrunning the rate of formation of stars in the galaxies they inhabit. | 2/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 154 | VideoA Tour of SDSS J1354+1327 | The dining galaxy is known by its abbreviated name, J1354, and is about 800 million light years from Earth. | 1/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 155 | VideoA Tour of the Galactic Center | A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip - complete with a 360-degree view - to the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. | 1/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 156 | VideoA Tour of the Perseus Cluster | An innovative interpretation of X-ray data from a galaxy cluster could help scientists understand the nature of dark matter. | 12/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 157 | VideoA Tour of Cassiopeia A Elements | Where do most of the elements essential for life on Earth come from? The answer: inside the furnaces of stars and the explosions that mark the end of some stars lives. | 12/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 158 | VideoA Tour of J0045+41 in M31 | An intriguing source has been discovered in the nearby Andromeda galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. | 11/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 159 | VideoA Tour of Jupiter's Auroras | A new study using Chandra and XMM-Newton data reveals that the auroras at Jupiter's poles behave independently. | 11/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 160 | VideoA Tour of GW170817 | Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first X-ray detection of a gravitational wave source. | 10/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 161 | VideoA Tour of Dual Black Holes | Astronomers have found evidence for five dual supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies, each containing millions of times the mass of the Sun. | 10/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 162 | VideoA Tour of V745 SCO | For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light years from Earth. | 9/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 163 | VideoA Tour of GJ 176 | X-rays emitted by a planet's host star may provide critical clues to just how hospitable a star system could be. | 9/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 164 | VideoA Tour of IC 10 | IC 10 is a starburst galaxy that has many new stars forming within it. | 8/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 165 | VideoA Tour of W51 | Because of its relative proximity, the giant molecular cloud W51 provides astronomers with an excellent opportunity to study how stars are forming in our Milky Way galaxy. | 7/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 166 | VideoA Tour of Arp 299 | What would happen if you took two galaxies and mixed them together over millions of years? | 6/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 167 | VideoA Tour of R Aquarii | In biology, "symbiosis" refers to two organisms that live close to and interact with one another. Astronomers have long studied a class of stars-- called symbiotic stars--that co-exist in a similar way. | 6/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 168 | VideoA Tour of Faint Active Nuclei in Chandra Deep Field South | Astronomers have determined the Big Bang occurred about 13.8 billion years ago and have evidence from the SDSS that supermassive black holes with masses of about a billion times that of the sun existed by about 12.8 billion years ago. | 6/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 169 | VideoA Tour of CXO J101527.2+625911 | Giant black holes are generally stationary objects, sitting at the centers of most galaxies. However, using data from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers recently hunted down a supermassive black hole that may be on the mov | 5/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 170 | VideoA Tour of NGC 4696 | The Centaurus Cluster is a collection of hundreds of galaxies located about 145 million light years from Earth. | 4/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 171 | VideoA Tour of CDF-S Transient XT1 | Scientists have discovered a mysterious flash of X-rays using Chandra X-ray Observatory, in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. | 3/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 172 | VideoA Tour of X9 in 47 Tucanae | In astronomy, a binary system is one where two objects are close enough that they orbit each other because they are gravitationally bound to one another. | 3/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 173 | VideoA Tour of Supernova 1987A | Thirty years ago on February 24, 1987, observers in the southern hemisphere noticed a new object in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | 2/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 174 | VideoA Tour of XJ1500+0154 | Every so often, an object will pass too close to a black hole and be ripped apart by its intense gravitational forces. | 2/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 175 | VideoTour of Chandra Deep Field South | What happens when astronomers use Chandra to take a long look at the same patch of sky? | 1/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 176 | VideoA Tour of Abell 3411 | There are many extraordinary things in the Universe. For example, astronomers have found many examples of supermassive black holes erupting in powerful outbursts that can stretch for millions of miles. | 1/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 177 | VideoA Tour of NGC 6357 | Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. | 12/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 178 | VideoA Tour of SPT 0346-52 | Astronomers have used Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes to show that a very distant galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction. | 12/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 179 | VideoA Tour of Cyg X-3's Little Friend | The story of how stars are born and eventually die can be a complicated one. | 11/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 180 | VideoA Tour of NGC 5128 Flare | Astronomers have found a pair of extraordinary objects that dramatically burst in X-rays. This discovery, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, may represent a new class of explosive events. | 10/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 181 | VideoA Tour of Chandra's Data Archives | Each year, Chandra X-ray Observatory helps celebrate American Archive Month by releasing a collection of images using X-ray data that have been stored in its archive. | 10/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 182 | VideoIs the Sun Really a Giant Pokemon? | The Sun can create powerful storms capable of knocking out communication satellites and damaging electrical power systems on Earth. | 10/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 183 | VideoA Tour of XJ1417+52 | First discovered in observations from Chandra and XMM-Newton over a decade ago, this object has some interesting properties. | 10/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 184 | VideoTour of Pluto | During the summer of 2015, scientists and the public alike were treated to a flood of images and discoveries about Pluto as the New Horizon spacecraft made an unprecedented flyby of the dwarf planet. | 9/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 185 | VideoTour of RCW 103 | When stars have more than about 8 times as much mass as the Sun, they end their lives in a spectacular explosion called a supernova. | 9/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 186 | VideoA Tour of CL J1001 | Galaxy clusters are incredibly important objects in the Universe since they are the largest objects in the Universe held together by gravity. | 8/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 187 | VideoThe AstrOlympics Project: PRESSURE | In science, pressure is defined as the amount of force over a given area. This means you can have the same amount of force over two different areas and end up with different results. | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 188 | VideoThe AstrOlympics Project: MASS | The range of mass in our everyday lives and what we can appreciate in sporting events like the Olympics is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg - especially once we allow our minds to consider the wonders of space | 8/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 189 | VideoThe AstrOlympics: Time | Time and our ability to measure it accurately is also key for many frontiers of science, including astrophysics. | 8/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 190 | VideoA Tour of G11.2-0.3 | While they may sound like very different and distinct fields, astronomy and history can intersect in very interesting and important ways. | 8/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 191 | VideoA Tour of IC 2497 | A galaxy and a cloud of cool gas located about 680 million light years from Earth. | 8/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 192 | VideoA Tour of GJ 3253 | A low-mass red dwarf star about 31 light years away from Earth. | 8/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 193 | VideoA Tour of GRB 140903A | Gamma-ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the Universe. | 7/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 194 | VideoThe AstrOlympics Project: DISTANCE | Despite how large some Olympic distances may seem, they are just a tiny fraction of the lengths we see across space. | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 195 | VideoA Tour of VLA J2130+12 | Astronomers have found many black holes both here in our Milky Way galaxy and beyond. | 6/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 196 | VideoThe AstrOlympics Project: SPEED | By converting speeds from common experiences into meters per second, we can use this as a reference point for exploring the enormous range of speeds around the world and across the Universe. | 6/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 197 | VideoThe AstrOlympics Project: ROTATION | In the Olympic Games, athletes often need to rotate in order to compete in their sports. We also find things in space that rotate. | 6/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 198 | VideoA Tour of TW Hya | One of the most exciting developments in astronomy in the last couple of decades has been the discovery and study of planets around stars other than our Sun. | 6/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 199 | VideoWhat Do Olympic Athletes and Objects in Space have in Common? | The AstrOlympics project explores the spectacular range of science that we can find both in the impressive feats of the Olympic Games as well as in cosmic phenomena throughout the Universe. | 6/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 200 | VideoA Tour of Black Hole Seeds | The new results suggest that at least some of the supermassive black holes in the early Universe formed through this direct collapse method. | 6/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 201 | VideoA Tour of Tycho's Supernova Remnant | In modern times, astronomers have observed the debris field from this explosion - what is now known as Tycho's supernova remnant - with many telescopes including the Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 5/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 202 | VideoA Tour of Galaxy Clusters | A new study tries to tackle the questions surrounding dark energy by examining properties of X-ray emission from galaxy clusters. | 5/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 203 | VideoA Tour of Comets ISON and PanSTARRS | Recently, astronomers have performed such a study using observations with Chandra of two comets, named ISON and PanSTARRS. | 4/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 204 | VideoA Tour of G1.9+0.3 | A little more than a century ago, as seen from the Earth, a star exploded near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. | 4/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 205 | VideoA Tour of Jupiter | A new study using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory has shown that storms from the Sun are triggering auroras in X-ray light. | 4/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 206 | VideoA Tour of Frontier Fields | Two of these Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, going by their abbreviated names, are MACS J0416 and MACS J0717. | 3/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 207 | VideoA Tour of B3 0727+409 | Astronomers have used Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the Universe. | 2/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 208 | VideoA Tour of Pictor A | The Universe produces phenomena that often surpass what science fiction can conjure. | 2/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 209 | VideoA Tour of IDCS J1426.5+3508 | New X-ray data from Chandra confirmed that IDCS J1426 was indeed enormous, weighing in at a whopping 500 trillion times the mass of our Sun. | 1/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 210 | VideoA Tour of NGC 5195 | Astronomers using Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence for powerful blasts produced by a giant black hole. | 1/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 211 | VideoBubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere | Bubbles represent important physical phenomena that can be found across many scales and in many different types of objects. | 12/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 212 | VideoA Tour of Zwicky 8338 | An extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail has been discovered using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 12/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 213 | VideoA Tour of IC 443 | The Jellyfish Nebula, lying about 5,000 light years from Earth, is the remnant of a supernova that occurred over 10,000 years ago. | 12/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 214 | VideoA Tour of SDSS J103842.59+484917.7 | One hundred years ago this month, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, one of the most important scientific achievements in the last century. | 11/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 215 | VideoA Tour of Delta Orionis | Modern astronomers know that Delta Orionis is not simply one single star, but rather it is a complex multiple star system. | 11/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 216 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Teeny Tiny Planet Destroyer | Astronomers have recently discovered evidence that a planet may have been destroyed in our very own Galaxy. | 10/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 217 | VideoA Tour of ASASSN-14li | When something, like a star or a planet, wanders too close to a black hole, it is usually not good news for that object. | 10/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 218 | VideoLight Beyond the Bulb: Bent Light in Space | One of the most interesting characteristics of light is that the path that it travels can bend. | 10/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 219 | VideoBanking X-ray Data for the Future | Chandra X-ray Observatory has collected data for over sixteen years on thousands of different objects throughout the Universe. | 10/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 220 | VideoTour of Phoenix Cluster | This galaxy cluster, which was found about 5.7 billion light years from Earth, shattered several important astronomical records. | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 221 | VideoTour of Sgr A* | At the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole that has the mass equivalent of some four million Suns. | 9/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 222 | VideoChandra Sketches: Highlights of Light | Light comes in different forms. The light that we see with our eyes is just a fraction of all light. | 9/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 223 | VideoChandra Sketches: Our Connection With Light | We rely on light - both natural and artificial - to brighten and power our world, but also for so much more. | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 224 | VideoTour of Abell 1033 | Understanding how clusters grow is critical to tracking how the Universe itself evolves over time. | 8/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 225 | VideoA Tour of RGG 118 | Oxymorons are often thought of as gaffes in language, but a new black hole discovery shows they can also represent important scientific advances. | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 226 | VideoColoring the Universe - Part 2 | Last time, we looked at the electromagnetic spectrum. This time we'll look at how astronomical images are made. | 8/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 227 | VideoColoring the Universe - Part 1 | An astronomer's toolkit consists of many kinds of light, across the electromagnetic spectrum. | 8/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 228 | VideoChandra's Sweet Sixteen | This year, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates its own "sweet 16." | 7/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 229 | VideoA Tour of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 | A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour. | 7/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 230 | VideoA Tour of NGC 1333 | While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time. | 7/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 231 | VideoA Tour of NGC 5813 | Galaxy groups are families of galaxies that are bound together by gravity. They are very similar to their larger cousins, galaxy clusters. | 7/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 232 | VideoLight Beyond the Bulb: Over and Beyond the Rainbow | While scientists and philosophers have tried to figure out exactly what light is for millennia, it's only been in the past several hundred years or so that we've really started to figure it out. | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 233 | VideoA Tour of Circinus X-1 | These rings are light echoes, similar to sound echoes that we may experience here on Earth. | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 234 | VideoLight Beyond the Bulb: Intro to Light | The year 2015 has been declared to be the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies by the United Nations. | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 235 | VideoA Tour of Space-time Foam | Since space-time foam, as it is called, is so tiny, scientists cannot observe it directly. | 5/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 236 | VideoChandra Sketches: Chandra Explained | Chandra does not look at light that we can see with our eyes. It detects x-rays from the Universe. | 5/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 237 | VideoA Tour of SGR 1745-2900 | A new study reveals that the X-ray output from SGR 1745-2900 is dropping more slowly than for other magnetars, and its surface is hotter than expected. | 5/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 238 | VideoA Tour of 3 Quasars | A group of unusual giant black holes may be consuming excessive amounts of matter, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 5/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 239 | VideoChandra Sketches: Clara's Launch | My mom works for NASA, for a telescope that studies X-rays from space. She told me about how the telescope, called Chandra, was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle. | 4/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 240 | VideoA Tour of NGC 6388 | Chandra's excellent X-ray vision enabled the astronomers to determine that the X-rays from NGC 6388 were not coming from a black hole at the center of the cluster. | 4/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 241 | VideoSpace Scoop: Not Your Average Superhero | A black hole is formed when a massive star is squashed into an incredibly tiny volume. | 4/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 242 | VideoA Tour of GK Persei | In space, explosions of actual stars are a focus for scientists who hope to better understand the lifecycle of their births, lives, and deaths. | 3/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 243 | VideoSpace Scoop: Weather Forecast Predicts Rain Around Black Holes | On Earth, precipitation happens when water is heated by the Sun and forms steam. Sometimes, something similar happens in galaxies. | 3/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 244 | VideoA Tour of Abell 2597 | Researchers used Chandra to look at some of the largest known galaxies lying in the middle of galaxy clusters. | 3/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 245 | VideoA Tour of NGC 2276 | Astronomers found that this intermediate-mass black hole is producing a jet that appears to be squelching the formation of stars around it. | 3/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 246 | VideoSpace Scoop: Megaflares Shed Light On Our Black Hole | Supermassive black holes are famous for their ability to swallow anything - even light. | 2/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 247 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Most Attractive Stars in the Universe | Astronomers think magnetars may be created when some massive stars die in a supernova explosion. | 2/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 248 | VideoA Tour of G299.2-2.9 | This new Chandra image of G299 shows a beautiful and intricate structure in the expanding remains of the shattered star. | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 249 | VideoA Tour of IYL 2015 | To recognize the start of IYL, the Chandra X-ray Center is releasing a collection of images that combine data from telescopes tuned to different wavelengths of light. | 1/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 250 | VideoIntroduction to OpenFITS | We would like to step through our new tutorial on creating a multiwavelength composite image of M101 using GIMP. | 1/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 251 | VideoTour of Sagittarius A* | Over the years, astronomers have learned many things about Sagittarius A* and it continues to surprise and intrigue scientists to this day. | 1/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 252 | VideoA Tour of il Gioiello Cluster | This galaxy cluster is officially known as XDCP J0044.0-2033. Perhaps not surprisingly, astronomers decided to give a nickname to this mouthful of a cluster name. | 1/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 253 | VideoHour of Code | Working with NASA and other data from exploded stars, to star-forming regions, to the area around black holes, students learn basic coding (for beginners - no experience required) and follow a video tutorial to create a real world application of science | 1/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 254 | VideoTour of NGC 2207 | When galaxies get together, there is also the chance of a spectacular light show. | 12/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 255 | VideoSpace Scoop: Breaking Free From a Cosmic Cocoon | The shock wave from the supernova is absorbed by the star's outer shells of gas and dust, which escaped from the star before the explosion. | 12/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 256 | VideoChandra - 15 Years and Counting | Celebrating 15 years of science with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: Chandra allows scientists from around the world to obtain X-ray images of exotic environments to help understand the structure and evolution of the universe. | 11/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 257 | VideoTour of Sagittarius A | One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is figuring out where mysterious particles called neutrinos come from. | 11/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 258 | VideoSpace Scoop: Please Don't Stop the Music! | Astronomers already know that the black hole at the centre of a collection of galaxies called the Perseus Cluster is powerful enough to make a very deep sound. | 11/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 259 | VideoA Tour of Perseus and Virgo Clusters | Now researchers have direct evidence for just how that energy keeps the gas in the entire galaxy cluster so hot. | 10/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 260 | VideoChandra's Archives Come to Life | Every year, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory looks at hundreds of objects throughout space to help expand our understanding of the Universe. | 10/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 261 | VideoA Tour of M82X-2 | Ultraluminous X-ray Sources, or ULXs, are unusual objects. They are rare and, as their name implies, give off enormous amounts of X-rays. | 10/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 262 | VideoSpace Scoop: At the End of the Rainbow | If we look deeper, space has a lot more to offer than what our eyes can see. | 10/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 263 | VideoTour of WASP-18 | A new study using data from Chandra X-ray Observatory has shown that a planet is making the star that it orbits act much older than it actually is. | 9/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 264 | VideoA Tour of Puppis A | The destructive results of a powerful supernova explosion are seen in a delicate tapestry of X-ray light in this new image. | 9/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 265 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Butterfly Hunter | Astronomers using Chandra X-ray Observatory have set out on a hunt, to look at as many planetary nebulae as they can. | 9/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 266 | VideoA Tour of Eta Carinae | New Chandra data are helping astronomers better understand how the two stars in Eta Carinae interact with one another through powerful winds blowing off their surfaces. | 8/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 267 | VideoSpace Scoop: Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Age of Binary Star System | A new study of an X-ray binary called Circinus X-1 found that it is less than 4,600 years old. | 8/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 268 | VideoSpace Scoop: Archaeologists of the Universe | This picture shows the aftermath of a collision between two huge groups of galaxies, which are called galaxy clusters. | 8/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 269 | VideoA Tour of M82 SN2014J | Earlier this year, astronomers discovered one of the closest supernovas in decades. | 8/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 270 | VideoChandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15th Anniversary | To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Chandra X-ray Observatory, we have released four new images of supernova remnants. | 8/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 271 | VideoSpace Scoop: X-ray Vision Reveals the Insides of Stars | Each of these four fabulous photographs shows the remains of an exploded star - called a supernova remnant. | 7/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 272 | VideoA Tour of The Big, Bad & Beautiful Universe with Chandra | In fifteen years of operation, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. | 7/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 273 | VideoA Tour of M106 | NGC 4258, also known as Messier 106, is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. This galaxy is famous, however, for something that our Galaxy doesn't have - two extra spiral arms that glow in X-ray, optical, and radio light. | 7/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 274 | VideoA Tour of Perseus | A team of astronomers has used Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton to study a large group of galaxy clusters with a surprising result. | 6/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 275 | VideoSpace Scoop: X-rays Uncover Black Holes Dancing With Normal Stars | This photograph shows the flamboyant spiral galaxy called Messier 51. | 6/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 276 | VideoA Tour of M51 | Like the Milky Way, the Whirlpool is a spiral galaxy with spectacular arms of stars and dust. | 6/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 277 | VideoSpace Scoop: Collecting Clues to a Cosmic Crime | The galaxy is called ESO 137-001 and in reality it is hidden from our view by a thick fog of space dust. | 6/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 278 | VideoSpace Scoop: Galaxy Hits a Cosmic Bullseye | The Universe is vast and largely made up of empty space, but cosmic collisions still happen pretty often. | 5/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 279 | VideoA Tour of Flame Nebula | A new study of NGC 2024 and the Orion Nebula Cluster show stars on the outskirts of these clusters are older than those in the middle. | 5/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 280 | VideoA Tour of Astro Pro-Am | Four images of galaxies that have been made using data from both amateur and professional telescopes. | 5/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 281 | VideoSpace Scoop: Blowing Bubbles | This is a gas bubble inside a previously blown bubble, or nebula, like you can see in this image. | 4/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 282 | VideoSpace Scoop: A Field Trip to Star School | When astronomers want to study young stars, this cluster - called Cygnus OB2 - is one of the first places they look. | 4/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 283 | VideoSpace Scoop: Sweeping Supernovas | This space photograph shows a supernova remnant that is sweeping up a remarkable amount of material. | 4/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 284 | VideoPillars of Erosion | Erosion is what happens when some sort of force wears down an object. | 4/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 285 | VideoA Tour of DEM L241 | When a massive star runs out fuel, it collapses and explodes as a supernova. | 3/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 286 | VideoTour of RX J1131-1231 | Astronomers have directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar that is located 6 billion light years away. | 3/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 287 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Galactic Empire | Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is more than just a giant barred spiral containing hundreds of billions of stars. | 3/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 288 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Space Olympics | Most stars are like long-distance marathon runners, as they are constantly moving in space throughout their lifetimes. | 2/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 289 | VideoA Tour of IGR J11014-6103 | This object is a pulsar, the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star has exploded and collapsed. | 2/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 290 | VideoSpace Scoop: Super-Sized Space Spider! | Astronomers had to combine observations made with two space telescopes to create this photo. | 2/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 291 | VideoA New Look at an Old Friend | This galaxy, at a distance of about 12 million light years from Earth, contains a gargantuan jet blasting away from a central supermassive black hole. | 2/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 292 | VideoSpace Scoop: I Can See Your Halo | Light from the nearest star outside our solar system has to travel through empty black space for 4.2 years before it reaches our eyes. | 2/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 293 | VideoSpace Scoop: A Flare for the Dramatic | Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. These stars were given their name because they are very strong magnets. | 1/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 294 | VideoTour of AM CVn | In the middle of the twentieth century, an unusual star was spotted in the constellation of Canes Venatici. | 1/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 295 | Video2013: A Year with the Chandra X-ray Observatory | The Chandra images included in this brief 2013 retrospective are drawn from dozens of images. | 1/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 296 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Big Explosion No One Saw | About once or twice every 100 years, a gigantic nuclear bomb detonates in our Galaxy. | 12/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 297 | VideoSpace Scoop: Beautiful But Deadly | It seems that there is a twist in nature: the more beautiful something is, the more deadly it also might be. | 12/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 298 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Mysterious Afterlife of Stellar Giants | Neutron stars are the ultra-dense cores left behind after a massive star reaches the end of its life and explodes. | 12/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 299 | VideoSgr A jet in 60 Seconds | Jets of high-energy particles are found throughout the Universe on large and small scales. | 12/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 300 | VideoSmithsonian X 3D Explorer | One of the most famous objects in the sky - the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant - is now on display like never before. | 11/26/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 301 | VideoSpace Scoop: A Study in Supernovas | Astronomers have to be good at solving puzzles by piecing together clues and evidence. | 11/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 302 | VideoSpace Scoop: A Colossal Cosmic Crash | In this picture, a galactic collision is taking place between the grand spiral galaxy and the tiny dwarf galaxy that you can see to its left. | 11/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 303 | VideoSpace Scoop: Growth of the Coma Colossus | This picture shows the very large, very distant and very gassy Coma Cluster. | 11/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 304 | VideoChandra Archive 2013 in 60 Seconds | The Chandra Data Archive plays a central role in the mission by enabling the astronomical community access to data collected by the observatory. | 10/31/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 305 | VideoSpace Scoop: Did Somebody Call the Ghostbusters? | This spooky new image shows a massive star in its afterlife. You could say it's a 'ghost star'. | 10/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 306 | VideoSpace Scoop: Circus in the Sky | This object was first spotted in 1757, but today we are still discovering new details about it. | 10/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 307 | VideoSeeds of Life Across the Universe | There is also seeding taking place on a much bigger stage - a cosmic one. | 10/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 308 | VideoM60-UCD1 in 60 Seconds | The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located about 54 million light years from Earth. | 9/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 309 | VideoComa Cluster in 60 Seconds | Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity. | 9/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 310 | VideoSpace Scoop: Beyond the Horizon | It took some pretty impressive technology to get these pictures, which wasn't available to our ancient ancestors. | 9/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 311 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Invisible Universe Exposed | Pictures of space are often gorgeous. But one of the most exciting things about them is that, very often, they show us things that are invisible to the human eye. | 9/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 312 | VideoSagittarius A* in 60 Seconds | Scientists have long known that the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a particularly poor eater. | 8/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 313 | VideoSpace Scoop: Goodness Gracious, Great Ball of Fire! | HD 189733 is an enormous gas giant, over 100 times bigger than Earth. | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 314 | VideoNGC 1232 in 60 Seconds | The hot gas cloud is likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy and a much larger galaxy called NGC 1232. | 8/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 315 | VideoHD 189733 in 60 Seconds | NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time | 7/29/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 316 | VideoNGC 2392 in 60 Seconds | Stars like the Sun can become remarkably photogenic at the end of their life. | 7/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 317 | VideoG1.9+0.3 in 60 Seconds | Astronomers estimate that a star explodes as a supernova in our Galaxy, on average, about twice per century. | 6/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 318 | VideoM31 in 60 Seconds | Many consider Andromeda, also known as Messier 31, to be a sister galaxy to our own Milky Way. | 6/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 319 | VideoThe Flow of Electric Charge | While most of us use electricity every day without thinking about it, maybe take a moment to look around. | 5/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 320 | VideoSGR 0418+5729 in 60 Seconds | A magnetar is a type of neutron star that occasionally generates bursts of X-rays. | 5/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 321 | Video4C+29.30 in 60 Seconds | Astronomers think that just about every galaxy contains a giant, or supermassive, black hole at their center. | 5/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 322 | VideoHeaven and Earth | There are patterns of beauty across our Earth and throughout the Universe. | 5/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 323 | VideoSTOP for Science: That's Fast | Most of us have heard the story of the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise is slow and the hare is fast. But what exactly does this mean? | 5/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 324 | VideoNGC 6240 in 60 Seconds | Two large galaxies are colliding and scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas that surrounds them. | 4/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 325 | VideoSN1006 In 60 Seconds | The new Chandra data provide new details about SN 1006. | 4/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 326 | VideoShadows: Light That Does Not Pass | Shadows occur on other planets as well. One excellent place to look for shadows in our Solar System is the planet Jupiter. | 4/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 327 | VideoThe Shape of Speed | Bow waves are not just found in duck ponds. Rather they can be anywhere in water, air, or even space where an object is moving quickly enough. | 4/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 328 | VideoNGC 602 in 60 Seconds | The Small Magellanic Cloud - also known as the SMC - is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. | 4/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 329 | VideoSTOP for Science: When Stars Go Boom | Our Sun is a star. In fact, it is the closest star we'll ever see. The Sun is about 5 billion years old and will live for about 5 billion more. But not all stars live this long. | 3/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 330 | VideoKepler Supernova Remnant in 60 Seconds | Over 400 years ago, Johannes Kepler and many others witnessed the appearance of a new "star" in the sky. | 3/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 331 | VideoSpace Scoop: The Star That Lived Two Lives | In 1604, a new star appeared in the night sky. It shone brighter than all the other stars, and for three weeks, it was even visible during the day! | 3/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 332 | Video47 Tucanae in 60 Seconds | Neutron stars are the ultra-dense cores that are often left behind after massive stars run out of fuel and collapse. | 3/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 333 | VideoLearn About Stars | Stars appear to be permanent fixtures of the night sky. However, stars are like people. They are born, live a lifetime, and ultimately die. | 2/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 334 | VideoW49B in 60 Seconds | The supernova remnant known as W49B is, let's say, a bit unorthodox looking. Many supernova remnants appear rather spherical in shape. | 2/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 335 | VideoLearn About Solar System | One star, eight planets, and a myriad of moons, comets and asteroids. This is the Earth's local neighborhood, known as the Solar System. | 2/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 336 | VideoIce Core Records: From Volcanoes to Supernovas (Part II) | While astronomers know that Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded, it is unclear exactly when the explosion took place. | 2/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 337 | VideoDEM L50 in 60 Seconds | DEM L50 is what astronomers call a superbubble. These objects are found in regions where massive stars have formed, raced through their evolution, and exploded as supernovas. | 2/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 338 | VideoChandra Images in 2012 | The Chandra images included in this short 2012 retrospective are drawn from dozens of images posted on our website (from among hundreds taken) in the past year to show the breadth and depth of research done using Chandra. | 1/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 339 | VideoVela Pulsar in 60 Seconds | Unlike with some Hollywood films, a sequel of a movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is better than the first. | 1/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 340 | VideoLearn About Supernovas | Supernovas are some of the most dramatic events in the cosmos. These titanic events send shockwaves rumbling through space and create giant bubbles of gas that have been superheated to millions of degrees. | 1/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 341 | VideoLearn About Black Holes | If a star has three times or more the mass of the sun and collapses, it can form a black hole. | 12/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 342 | VideoA Bend in the Road | There are many things around us that bend. Straws bend. Rivers bend. But did you know that light also bends? | 12/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 343 | VideoPKS 0745 in 60 Seconds | Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought. | 12/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 344 | VideoNGC 3627 in 60 Seconds | The spiral galaxy NGC 3627 is located about 30 million light years from Earth. Astronomers recently completed a survey of galaxies to look for supermassive black holes. | 12/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 345 | VideoNGC 922 in 60 Seconds | By comparing NGC 922 to galaxies with different mixtures of elements, astronomers hope to master the ideal recipe for what it takes to make these large black holes. | 12/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 346 | VideoWhen Atoms Collide | Where can we observe light emitted by atoms? The answer: Here, there, and everywhere. | 12/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 347 | VideoGB 1428+4217 in 60 Seconds | The most distant jet in X-ray light has been discovered using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 11/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 348 | VideoAbell 30 in 60 Seconds | A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now, when it expands to become a red giant. | 11/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 349 | VideoCygnus OB2 in 60 Seconds | The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe are home to many star clusters and associations that each contain hundreds to thousands of hot, massive, young stars. | 11/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 350 | VideoSpirals in Nature | Looking at a hurricane from this point of view, we can see that the storm is, in fact, a giant spiral shape. | 11/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 351 | VideoLearn About the Milky Way | The word galaxy comes from the Greek word meaning "milky circle" or the more familiar Milky Way. | 11/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 352 | VideoNGC 4178 in 60 Seconds | A supermassive black hole with one of the lowest masses ever observed has been spotted in the middle of a galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other observatories. | 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 353 | VideoPlanetary Nebula Survey | A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now, when it expands to become a red giant. | 10/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 354 | VideoWIND - Here, There and Everywhere | Wind is an excellent example of a phenomenon that happens here, there, and everywhere. | 9/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 355 | VideoKepler's Supernova Remnant in 60 Seconds | This image of Kepler's supernova remnant shows the expanding ball of debris from a supernova explosion in our galaxy. | 9/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 356 | VideoNGC 1929 in 60 Seconds | The star cluster known as NGC 1929 is embedded in a cloud of gas and dust, which astronomers call the N44 nebula. | 8/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 357 | VideoPhoenix Cluster in 60 Seconds | Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster -- one of the largest objects in the Universe -- that is breaking several important cosmic records. | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 358 | VideoSN 1957D in M83 in 60 Seconds | Over fifty years ago, a supernova was discovered in M83, a spiral galaxy about 15 million light years from Earth. | 7/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 359 | VideoIGR J11014-6103 in 60 Seconds | A pulsar found racing away from a supernova remnant about 30,000 light years from Earth. | 6/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 360 | VideoNGC 4342 and NGC 4291 in 60 Seconds | Astronomers think that just about every galaxy has a giant black hole at its center. | 6/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 361 | VideoCID-42 in 60 Seconds | At the center of a galaxy some 4 billion light years from Earth, something extraordinary is happening. This galaxy, known as CID-42, contains a giant black hole. | 6/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 362 | VideoSN 2010jl in 60 Seconds | Why are some supernovas much more powerful than others? Astronomers are still trying to figure that out, but one new discovery may help answer the question. | 5/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 363 | VideoM83 in 60 Seconds | Since the 1980s, astronomers have known about a mysterious class of objects that they call "ultraluminous X-ray sources," or ULXs. | 5/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 364 | VideoMusket Ball Cluster in 60 Seconds | Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have discovered a violent collision between two galaxy clusters. | 4/16/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 365 | VideoStop for Science: Listening to Light | When we look up on a dark night, we see a sky filled with stars. The light from a star, like the light from a flashlight or a lightning bug, is one form of electromagnetic radiation. | 4/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 366 | VideoCassiopeia A in 60 Seconds | Over three hundred years ago, a very large star ran out of fuel and collapsed. This event created an explosion, known as a supernova, which then produced an expanding field of debris. | 4/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 367 | VideoA Tour of 3C 186: An Interview with Dr. Aneta Siemiginowska | A galaxy cluster containing a structure never previously seen so far from Earth has been observed by Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 3/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 368 | VideoAbell 383 in 60 Seconds | Dark matter is mysterious. We know that it is invisible material that does not emit or absorb any type of light, but we can detect it through the gravitational effects it has on material we can see. | 3/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 369 | VideoSgr A* in 60 Seconds | Over several years, astronomers have noticed flares in X-ray light from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. | 2/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 370 | VideoG350.1-0.3 in 60 Seconds | G350.1+0.3 is a young and exceptionally bright supernova remnant located nearly 15,000 light years from Earth toward the center of the Milky Way. | 2/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 371 | VideoIce Core Records: From Volcanoes to Supernovas | Researchers have been traveling for decades to some of the coldest places on the planet to uncover some of the secrets from space that have been left behind on Earth. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 372 | VideoEl Gordo (ACT J0102-4915) in 60 Seconds | Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered an extraordinary galaxy cluster some 7.2 billion light years from Earth. | 1/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 373 | VideoSXP 1062 in 60 Seconds | The Milky Way galaxy has several small satellite galaxies very close to it. One of them is called the Small Magellanic Cloud. | 12/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 374 | VideoAbell 2052 in 60 Seconds | The galaxy cluster Abell 2052 is found some 480 million light years from Earth. At the center of Abell 2052 is a giant elliptical galaxy, and within that is a supermassive black hole. | 12/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 375 | VideoTarantula Nebula in 60 Seconds | 30 Doradus is a place where stars are born literally. This region, which is also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is located about 160,000 light years from Earth. | 12/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 376 | VideoCygnus X-1 in 60 Seconds | Over three decades ago, Stephen Hawking placed, and eventually lost, a bet against the existence of a black hole in Cygnus X-1. | 11/18/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 377 | VideoRCW 86 in 60 Seconds | In 185 A.D., Chinese astronomers noted a "guest star" that mysteriously appeared in the sky and stayed for about 8 months. | 11/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 378 | VideoCID 1711 and CID 3083 in 60 Seconds | Astronomers have recently completed a large survey of the sky using some of the powerful telescopes both on the ground and in space. | 10/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 379 | VideoG299.2-2.9 in 60 Seconds | G299.2-2.9 is an intriguing supernova remnant found about 16,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. | 10/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 380 | VideoNGC 281 in 60 Seconds | High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into a galaxy over its lifetime. | 9/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 381 | VideoCoRoT-2A in 60 Seconds | In recent years, astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. | 9/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 382 | VideoNGC 3393 in 60 Seconds | Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. | 8/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 383 | VideoVV 340 in 60 Seconds | VV 340, also known as Arp 302, is a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the very early stages of their interaction. | 8/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 384 | VideoA Tour of the Crab | The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest sources of high-energy radiation in the sky. | 8/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 385 | VideoNGC 3115 in 60 Seconds | This is NGC 3115, a galaxy located about 32 million light years from Earth. This composite image contains X-rays from Chandra as well as optical data from the Very Large Telescope. | 7/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 386 | VideoPSR J0357+3205 in 60 Seconds | A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail, or is it? Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a long, X-ray bright tail streaming away from the pulsar known as PSR J0357. | 7/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 387 | VideoAbell 2744 in 60 Seconds | One of the most complicated and dramatic collisions ever seen between galaxy clusters is captured in this new composite image. | 6/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 388 | VideoCDFS in 60 Seconds | This image is what is known as the Chandra Deep Field South, a 4-million-second exposure made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 6/17/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 389 | VideoCarina Nebula in 60 Seconds | Located in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way a mere 7,500 light years from Earth, the Carina Nebula is one of the best places to study how massive stars live and die. | 5/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 390 | VideoTycho's Supernova Remnant in 60 Seconds | New research using Chandra data of the Tycho supernova remnant provides astronomers with clues to what triggered the original supernova explosion. | 4/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 391 | VideoMassive Stars in the Milky Way in 60 Seconds | Like looking for Easter eggs in a lawn of long grass, the hunt for the Milky Way's most massive stars takes persistence and sharp eyes and powerful telescopes that can see different types of light. | 4/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 392 | VideoTycho in 60 Seconds | Over four hundred years ago, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe studied the explosion of a star that later became known as Tycho's supernova. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 393 | VideoCassiopeia A in 60 Seconds | A new discovery from a famous exploded star has provided the first evidence for a bizarre state of matter in its core. | 2/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 394 | VideoArp 147 in 60 Seconds | This image shows Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies some 430 million light years from Earth. | 2/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 395 | VideoGRS 1915+105 in 60 Seconds | GRS 1915+105, or GRS 1915 for short, is a special system. Not only does it contain a black hole some 14 times more massive than the Sun in orbit with a companion star, it also has a heartbeat. | 1/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 396 | VideoA Tour of SN 1979C | The youngest known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood may have been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. | 11/15/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 397 | VideoA Tour of GOODS | The most powerful telescopes on the ground and in space have joined forces over the last decade in a unique observing campaign, known as GOODS, which reaches across the spectrum and deep back into cosmic time. | 10/14/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 398 | VideoG327.1-1.1 in 60 Seconds | G327.1-1.1 is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Milky Way galaxy. | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 399 | VideoRosette Nebula in 60 Seconds | This spectacular image shows the Rosette star formation region, which is located about 5,000 light years from Earth. | 9/17/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 400 | VideoSuper-volcano M87 in 60 Seconds | This composite image from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory with radio data from the Very Large Array shows a cosmic volcano being driven by a black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. | 9/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 401 | VideoCH Cyg in 60 Seconds | Deep within this optical image lies an intriguing system known as CH Cyg. CH Cyg is a binary star system containing a white dwarf that feeds from the wind of a red giant star. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 402 | VideoAntennae in 60 Seconds | This beautiful new image shows two colliding galaxies as seen by NASA's Great Observatories. | 8/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 403 | VideoNGC 7793 in 60 Seconds | This composite image shows the nearby galaxy NGC 7793 that contains a powerful microquasar in its outskirts. | 7/26/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 404 | VideoM31 Black Hole in 60 Seconds | For over a decade, astronomers have been using the Chandra X-ray Observatory to monitor the supermassive black hole in the center of Andromeda, the Milky Way's sister galaxy. | 7/2/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 405 | VideoM82 in 60 Seconds | We begin with a composite image of the nearby starburst galaxy M82 that contains X-rays from Chandra in blue, optical data from Hubble in green and orange, and infrared data from Spitzer in red. | 6/18/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 406 | VideoN49 in 60 Seconds | This beautiful image shows N49, which is the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | 6/4/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 407 | VideoAbell 3376 in 60 Seconds | This composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 3376 shows X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope along with an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey and radio emission observed by the Very Large Array. | 5/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 408 | VideoG54.1+0.3 in 60 Seconds | Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope were combined to create this image of the dusty remains of a collapsed star. | 4/26/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 409 | VideoSDSS J1254+0846 in 60 Seconds | Two quasars have been caught in the act of merging, thanks to this new image. | 4/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 410 | VideoNGC 1068 in 60 Seconds | This image shows one of the nearest and brightest galaxies to the Milky Way that contains a rapidly growing supermassive black hole known as NGC 1068. | 3/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 411 | VideoESO 137 in 60 Seconds | Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy known as ESO 137. | 3/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 412 | VideoM31 in 60 Seconds | This image of M31 represents a study of six elliptical galaxies that Chandra made to determine what causes an important type of supernova. | 2/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 413 | VideoNGC 1399 in 60 Seconds | Evidence from Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes in Chile suggest that a star has been torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole. | 2/4/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 414 | VideoSagittarius A* in 60 Seconds | Astronomers have long known that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is a particularly poor eater. | 1/21/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 415 | VideoBest of The Beautiful Universe | In its first decade of exploration, Chandra has expanded our view of the universe with its unrivaled ability to create high-resolution X-ray images of cosmic phenomena. | 12/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 416 | VideoChandras Extraordinary Universe | In ten years of operation, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed our view of the high-energy universe. | 12/21/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 417 | VideoMultiwavelength Crab Nebula in 60 Seconds | The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the night sky. This version of the Crab Nebula combines data from three different telescopes. | 12/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 418 | VideoMultiwavelength Galactic Center in 60 Seconds | This never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way combines a near-infrared view from Hubble, an infrared image from Spitzer, and X-ray data from Chandra. | 11/23/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 419 | VideoThe Cassiopeia A in 60 Seconds | Cassiopeia A is a supernova remnant found embedded in the constellation that bears its name, which is known as the queen in Greek mythology. | 11/9/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 420 | VideoJKCS041 in 60 Seconds | The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been found some 10.2 billion light-years from Earth. | 10/26/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 421 | VideoNGC 6240 in 60 Seconds | NGC 6240 is a system in which two supermassive black holes are a mere 3,000 light years apart, virtually nothing in astronomical terms. | 10/7/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 422 | VideoGalactic Center in 60 Seconds | This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals a wealth of exotic objects and high-energy features at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. | 9/22/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 423 | VideoHydra A in 60 Seconds | This composite image of the Hydra A galaxy cluster shows 10-million-degree gas observed by Chandra and jets of radio emission observed by the Very Large Array. | 9/14/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 424 | VideoCepheus B in 60 Seconds | A new study from two of NASA's "Great Observatories" provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our own Milky Way Galaxy. | 8/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 425 | VideoIntroductory Trailer to Chandra | In Florence, Italy, in the year 1609, the world changed. Using a small telescope, Galileo proved that the Earth is not distinct from the universe, but part of it. And he showed that there is much more to the universe than we see with the naked eye. | 8/10/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 426 | VideoE0102 in 60 Seconds | The supernova remnant known as E0102 was one of the targets that Chandra first observed after its launch in 1999. | 7/23/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 427 | VideoStephans Quintet in 60 Seconds | This beautiful image gives a new look at Stephans Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million light years from Earth. | 7/10/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 428 | VideoGRS 1915 in 60 Seconds | We start with an optical and infrared image that shows the crowded area around the object known as GRS 1915+105, or GRS 1915 for short. | 6/25/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 429 | VideoGalactic Ridge in 60 Seconds | This sequence begins with an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope of the central region of the Milky Way. | 5/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 430 | VideoMacsJ0717 in 60 Seconds | This image contains one of the most complex galaxy clusters known, which is located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth. | 5/15/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 431 | VideoMedusa in 60 Seconds | NGC 4194 is a galaxy that is found about 110 million light years from Earth. | 5/1/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 432 | Video30 Doradus in 60 Seconds | Chandra's X-ray image of the Tarantula Nebula gives scientists a close-up view of the drama of star formation and star evolution. | 4/17/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 433 | VideoPSR B1509-58 in 60 Seconds | A small dense object is responsible for the remarkably complex and intriguing structures seen in this image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 4/3/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 434 | VideoNGC 604 in 60 Seconds | NGC 604 is a divided neighborhood in the galaxy M33, where some 200 hot, young massive stars reside. | 3/23/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 435 | VideoCrab Nebula in 60 Seconds | The Crab Nebula is one of the best-known images ever taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. | 3/5/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 436 | VideoM101 in 60 Seconds | This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 is a composite of observations from NASA's three Great Observatories. | 2/10/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 437 | VideoAbell 85 in 60 Seconds | The composite image shows the galaxy cluster known as Abell 85, which is located about 740 million light years from Earth. | 1/23/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 438 | Video3-D Fly-Through of Cassiopeia A | For the first time, a multiwavelength three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of a supernova remnant has been created. | 1/8/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 439 | VideoG292.01+8 in 60 Seconds | This image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be. | 12/22/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 440 | VideoM84 in 60 Seconds | M84 is a massive elliptical galaxy located about 55 million light years from Earth in the Virgo Cluster. | 12/12/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 441 | VideoM87 in 60 Seconds | M87 is a giant elliptical galaxy. At a distance of about 60 million light-years from Earth, M87 is the largest galaxy in the Virgo cluster of some 2,000 galaxies. | 11/25/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 442 | VideoAbell 1689 in 60 Seconds | Abell 1689 is a massive cluster of galaxies located about 2.3 billion light-years away. | 11/14/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 443 | VideoSN1996cr in 60 Seconds | In 1995 or 1996 a supernova exploded in a nearby galaxy, but no one on Earth knew it at the time. | 10/31/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 444 | VideoRCW 108 in 60 Seconds | RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming about 4,000 light-years from Earth. | 10/16/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 445 | VideoPerseus A in 60 Seconds | The giant galaxy, Perseus A, which is also known as NGC 1275, is a well-known source of strong radio radiation. | 10/2/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 446 | VideoCat's Eye Nebula in 60 Seconds Plus | This composite of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope is another look for NGC 6543, better known as the Cat's Eye nebula. | 9/19/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 447 | VideoMacs J0025.4-1222 in 60 Seconds Plus | Two galaxy clusters, each a quadrillion times the mass of the Sun, collided to form the system formally known as Macs J0025.4-1222. | 9/4/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 448 | VideoM81 in 60 Seconds | This image of the mammoth spiral galaxy M81, located about 12 million light years away, contains data from four different NASA satellites. | 8/21/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 449 | VideoSN 1006 in 60 Seconds | The brightest supernova ever recorded on Earth, this spectacular light show was documented in China, Japan, Europe, and the Arab world. It was brighter than Venus, and visible during the day for weeks. | 8/8/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 450 | VideoCentaurus A in 60 Seconds | There is nothing subtle about the black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A. First off, it's about 10 million times more massive than the sun, and Chandra's X-ray image shows it's not just sitting quietly as a bright point in the middle. | 7/24/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 451 | VideoNGC 4258 in 60 Seconds | A composite image of NGC 4258, about 25 million light-years from Earth, shows an X-shaped pattern when seen in different types of light. | 7/11/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 452 | VideoG1.9+0.3 in 60 Seconds | About a hundred and forty years ago, the light from a supernova explosion in our galaxy reached the Earth, but no one saw it. The discovery of this supernova remnant helps astronomers better understand how often these stellar time-bombs go off in our ga | 6/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 453 | Video3C321 in 60 Seconds | In 3C321, a jet from a black hole in one of the galaxies is pummeling its neighbor galaxy, the first time this type of galactic violence has ever been seen. The jet could bring big trouble for any planets in its path, but could also trigger a burst of | 6/12/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 454 | VideoSombrero Galaxy in 60 Seconds | Like the Milky Way, Sombrero is a spiral galaxy. However, we see Sombrero edge-on from our vantage point from Earth, rather than the face-down perspective that is more familiar. | 5/21/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 455 | VideoKepler's Supernova Remnant in 60 Seconds | The supernova explosion that created this object was witnessed on Earth about 400 ago years by many skywatchers, including the astronomer Johannes Kepler. This object, which now bears Kepler's name, is the remains of a massive star's demise. | 5/7/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 456 | VideoM82 in 60 Seconds | When seen in visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope, M82 looks like an ordinary spiral galaxy. | 4/14/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 457 | VideoThe Crab Nebula in 60 Seconds | In 1054 A.D., a star's death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth. Now, almost a thousand years later, a superdense neutron star left behind by the explosion is spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding de | 3/31/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 458 | VideoM51 in 60 Seconds | Hubble's image of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, shows the majestic spiral arms that are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. The infrared image from Spitzer also reveals stars and the glow from clouds of interstellar dust. | 3/18/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 459 | VideoCassiopeia A in 60 Seconds | Cassiopeia A is the 300-year-old remnant created by the supernova explosion of a massive star. Each Great Observatory image highlights different characteristics of the remnant. | 2/11/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 460 | VideoChandra X-ray Observatory Presents: A BLACK HOLE PRIMER | Humanity has long sought to learn about the Milky Way, our home galaxy. | 12/31/1969 | Free | View in iTunes |
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