Chandra Images by Date 2009

Chandra Images by Date: 2009

17 Dec 09
G292.0+1.8
Supernova remnants representing two different types of supernova explosions.

17 Dec 09
Kepler's Supernova Remnant
Supernova remnants representing two different types of supernova explosions.

10 Dec 09
NGC 6872
A pair of colliding galaxies at a distance of about 180 million light years from Earth.

23 Nov 09
Crab Nebula
The remnants of a star that exploded and that appeared in Earth's sky almost a thousand years ago.

10 Nov 09
Galactic Center
The core of the Milky Way at a distance of some 26,000 light years from Earth.

04 Nov 09
Cassiopeia A
A supernova remnant in the Milky Way with a neutron star at its center.

22 Oct 09
JKCS041
A galaxy cluster located about 10.2 billion light years from Earth.

06 Oct 09
NGC 6240
A galaxy about 330 million light years from Earth.

22 Sep 09
Galactic Center
A 400 by 900 light-year mosaic of images located about 26,000 light years from Earth.

14 Sep 09
Hydra A
A galaxy cluster about 840 million light years from Earth.

27 Aug 09
Cygnus X-1
A black hole in close orbit around a blue supergiant star.

12 Aug 09
Cepheus B
A cloud of molecular hydrogen in the Milky Way about 2,400 light years from Earth.

23 Jul 09
E0102-72.3
Officially known as 1E0102.2-7129, a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

09 Jul 09
Stephan's Quintet
A group of galaxies that is located about 280 million light years from Earth.

26 Jun 09
RCW 86
A supernova remnant in the Milky Way, about 8,200 light years from Earth.

24 Jun 09
Lyman Alpha Blobs
Giant reservoirs of hydrogen gas about 10 billion light years away.

09 Jun 09
SNR 0104-72.3
A supernova remnant located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 190,000 light years from Earth.

28 May 09
HDF 130
A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy, about 10 billion light years away.

14 May 09
3C305
A galaxy, about 600 million light years away, with a supermassive black hole at its center.

29 Apr 09
Galactic X-ray Ridge
A ridge-like structure near the center of the Milky Way of X-ray emission discovered by earlier telescopes.

16 Apr 09
MACSJ0717.5+3745
One of the most complex galaxy clusters, located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth.

03 Apr 09
PSR B1509-58
(B1509)
A 1700-year-old pulsar and its nebula, located about 17,000 light years from Earth.

25 Mar 09
GRS 1915+105
A stellar-mass black hole with about 14 times the Sun’s mass in the Milky Way.

11 Mar 09
NGC 4194
A galaxy lies about 110 million light years away

26 Feb 09
PSR J0108-1431
The oldest pulsar detected in X-rays at a distance of about 770 light years from Earth.

18 Feb 09
Tycho's Supernova Remnant
The hot, expanding debris of a supernova observed in 1572.

10 Feb 09
M101
A face-on spiral galaxy about 22 million light years from Earth.

30 Jan 09
Centaurus A
An active galaxy at a distance of 10 million light years from Earth.

27 Jan 09
NGC 604
The largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33

06 Jan 09
Cassiopeia A
The supernova remnant that was Chandra's "First Light" has been observed over time.

06 Jan 09
Cassiopeia A
A multiwavelength three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of a supernova remnant has been created.