Young "Sun" Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA's Chandra

This image contains the first “astrosphere,” or wind-blown bubble, that astronomers have captured surrounding a star that is a younger version of our Sun.

https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/astrosphere/

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/John Hopkins Univ./C.M. Lisse et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STIS; Optical: NSF/NoirLab/CTIO/DECaPS2; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

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Holiday Collection: Cosmic Holiday Greetings From NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Four new winter-themed images that contain X-rays from Chandra and data from other telescopes have been released.

https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/holidays/

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Chandra's Fall Collection 🍂

A quartet of images that invoke themes associated with autumn

1. NGC 6334 nebula: Cosmic leaves blowing
2. SNR G272.2-03.2: The Space Pumpkin
3. R Aquarii: A cosmic sweater
4. NGC 2207 and IC 2163: A pair of galactic cornucucopia

https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/fall/

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Turns out the whole universe is made of swiss cheese. There's holes everywhere:

Astronomers detected 400 previously unknown black holes in a new X-ray survey of dusty galactic centers.

https://www.limfic.com/2023/02/22/writer-fuel-nasa-finds-400-new-black-holes-shrouded-by-dust/

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