A star is bombarding a baby planet with X-rays, shrinking it from the size of Jupiter to a small, barren world, according to a new Chandra study. Scientists estimate the planet is losing a mass equivalent to a full Earth's atmosphere about every 200 years.

To infinity and beyond! Scientists using NASA's Chandra & Webb have discovered an oddly-shaped galaxy resembling the infinity symbol ♾️ that may contain the first newborn supermassive black hole ever spotted. The buzz:

The Bullet Cluster is iconic, having provided the first direct proof of dark matter with NASA's Chandra, Hubble, and ground-based telescopes back in 2006. This spectacular new image combines Chandra & Webb Telescope data — helping us learn more about dark matter than ever before.

This new image shows the Andromeda Galaxy in 5 different types of light — X-ray, UV, optical, infrared, and radio. Andromeda, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years.

Today Chandra is studying a not so itsy bitsy spider that's making big waves. Located about 3,000 light-years from Earth, the Red Spider Nebula is home to one of the hottest stars known. The star produces powerful stellar winds, generating waves about 100 billion kilometers high.

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A record-breaking structure, spanning nearly 20 million light-years, has been discovered in a galaxy cluster. It could help us understand how magnetic fields shape the Universe on the largest scales — one of the major unanswered questions in astrophysics:

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. More:

New observations have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now heading back for another swipe at each other. About 2.8 billion light-years from Earth, the clusters are currently separated by about 11 million light-years.

Today Chandra is studying the magnetar in the center of supernova remnant RCW 103. A magnetar is a type of neutron star that's highly magnetized. If this thing was located about half the distance to the moon, it would wipe out the data on every credit card strip on the planet!🤯

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are! Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving us fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. More at: ⭐

NGC 6872 is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the known universe. At over 520,000 light-years across, it's more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. This incredible image combines X-ray light from Chandra with optical light from @NASAHubble. 🌀

Today Chandra is studying NGC 1097, a beautiful barred spiral galaxy located about 48 million light-years from Earth. Young clusters of blue stars sparkle in the galaxy's arms, while the galaxy's core harbors a monster black hole roughly 140 million times the mass of our Sun.

2/2, About the sonification:.Sweeping around clockwise from the top of the image, the scan encounters Chandra’s X-rays and plays them as single-note wind chimes. X-ray light from IXPE is heard as a continuous range of frequencies, producing a wind-like sound. Visible light data.

About 12 million light-years from Earth, at the center of Centaurus A, is an enormous black hole that is sending a booming jet across the entire length of the galaxy. This sonification combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra & IXPE with optical data from the ESO's MPG telescope. 1/2

WR124 is an extremely bright, short-lived massive star known as a Wolf-Rayet at a distance of about 28,000 light-years from Earth. These stars fling their outer layers out into space, creating spectacular arrangements seen in infrared light from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

3 new sonifications — each with a connection to black holes — drop today! First up is a prelude to the potential birth of a black hole, star WR 124, seen here in X-ray light from Chandra and infrared light from @NASAWebb and other telescopes. 🎧More at:

A black hole has torn apart a star in an unusual location — almost 3,000 light-years away from the center of a galaxy. This off-center event suggests the presence of a second supermassive black hole in the same galaxy. More at: 💫