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Westerlund 2: A Stellar Sight
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Westerlund 1 (A dense cluster of young stars about 16,000 light years from Earth.)
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W3 Main: A Productive Star Formation Factory
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Venus in a New Light (The second planet closest to the Sun in our solar system.)
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A rapidly rotating neutron star in the Vela supernova remnant.
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Tycho's Supernova Remnant: Tycho's Remnant Provides Shocking Evidence for Cosmic Rays (The hot, expanding debris of a supernova observed in 1572.)
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A star cluster about 9,000 light years from Earth in the Constellation Carina.
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Sombrero Galaxy: A Great Observatories View (A spiral galaxy, also known as M104, in the Virgo cluster about 28 million light years away.)
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A supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 160,000 light years from Earth.
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SNR 0103-72.6: Chandra Finds Rich Oxygen Supply inside Glowing Ring (A supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy about 190,000 light years from Earth.)
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SN 1006: The Hot Remains of a 1000 Year-Old Supernova (A supernova remnant about 7,000 light years from Earth.)
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Sirius A and B: A Double-Star System in the Constellation Canis Major
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Hot Gas in Galactic Center: Chandra Turns Up the Heat in the Milky Way Center (A 130 light year region of the center of the Milky Way: Located about 26,000 light years from Earth, the region contains a supermassive black hole, hot gas, and thousands of X-
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Saturn (The 6th planet from the Sun, as seen at a distance of 890 million miles from Earth.)
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The supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy.
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Rosette Nebula: Scientists Find X Rays from Stellar Winds That May Play Significant Role in Galactic Evolution (A star-forming region 5,000 light years away in the constellation Monoceros.)
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A young star cluster 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation Vela.
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A supernova remnant created from the death of a massive star about 2,000 years ago.
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Puppis A: Chandra Reveals Cloud Disrupted By Supernova Shock
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A quasar about 10 billion light years from Earth located in the constellation Crater.
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Perseus Cluster: Chandra Proves Black Hole Influence is Far Reaching (The central region of a rich galaxy cluster about 250 million light years from Earth.)
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Orion Nebula: Peering into the Orion Nebula
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Orion Nebula: Planetary Protection--X-ray Super Flares Aid Formation of "Solar Systems" (A rich cluster of young stars about 1,500 light years from Earth.)
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Mz 3, BD+30-3639, Hen 3-1475, and NGC 7027: Planetary Nebulas - Fast Winds from Dying Stars
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NGC 6240 (An extremely luminous galaxy about 400 million light years from Earth.)
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NGC 4649: A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Hole (An elliptical galaxy about 51 million light years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.)
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A spiral galaxy about 25 million light years from Earth.
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NGC 3576: Massive Stars Revealed by Chandra
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NGC 3079 (A spiral galaxy about 55 million light years from Earth.)
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NGC 1132: A Mysterious Elliptical Galaxy (An elliptical galaxy at a distance of about 300 million light years.)
