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2. Chandra X-ray Observatory - Wikipedia

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   The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Chandra was sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular ...

3. Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia

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   NASA/ESA photo. The Andromeda Galaxy is known to harbor a dense and compact star cluster at its very center, similar to our own galaxy. A large telescope creates a visual impression of a star embedded in the more diffuse surrounding bulge. In 1991, the Hubble Space Telescope was used to image the

4. File:A Swift Tour of M31.ogv - Wikipedia

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   Description A Swift Tour of M31.ogv. English: NASA 's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighbouring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation ...

5. File:Andromeda galaxy Ssc2005-20a1.jpg - Wikipedia

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   Description Andromeda galaxy Ssc2005-20a1.jpg. English: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured stunning infrared views of the famous Andromeda galaxy to reveal insights that were only hinted at in visible light. This Spitzer's 24-micron mosaic is the sharpest image ever taken of the dust in another spiral galaxy.

6. List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies - Wikipedia

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   The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has satellite galaxies just like the Milky Way. Orbiting M31 are at least 13 dwarf galaxies: the brightest and largest is M110, which can be seen with a basic telescope. The second-brightest and closest one to M31 is M32. The other galaxies are fainter, and were mostly discovered starting from the 1970s.

7. File:PIA20061 - Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays, Figure 1.jpg

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   Description PIA20061 - Andromeda in High-Energy X-rays, Figure 1.jpg. English: NASA's Nuclear Spectroscope Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has imaged a swath of the Andromeda galaxy -- the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. NuSTAR's view (inset) shows high-energy X-rays coming mostly from X-ray binaries, which are pairs of stars in ...

8. Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

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   The golden record's location on Voyager (middle-bottom-left) The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. [ 1 ] The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent ...

9. Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia

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   t. e. The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system ...