In addition to the Chandra data, the new image contains optical data from the Legacy Surveys (red, green, and blue), which ...

The Champagne Cluster holds special significance this time of the year because it was discovered on New Year's Eve in 2020.

The Bullet Cluster, named for its distinctive shape, has long been considered a smoking gun for the existence of dark matter in space. What makes this cluster famous isn’t the violence of it all. It’s ...

Why it's so special: Galaxy clusters act as a magnifying lens, shining light on the faintest and most distant objects — a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. On the rarest of occasions, galaxy ...

Raise a toast to another orbit around the sun with a new NASA image of sparkling galaxy clusters fittingly dubbed the ...

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical ...

A galaxy cluster discovered on New Year’s Eve in 2020 shines in a new image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory ...

The Bullet Cluster as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) consists of a larger cluster of galaxies (left) and a smaller cluster (right). The hot gas seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory is ...

A new composite image reveals the “Champagne Cluster” as two massive galaxy clusters caught in a rare, violent collision.

A newly revealed cosmic image shows two galaxy clusters colliding as one. Nicknamed the Champagne Cluster, it offers rare ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory captures a composite image of the Champagne Cluster, showing two merging galaxy clusters, hot gas distribution and dark matter structures.

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe. It was discovered almost by accident, a blip of x-rays in the sky that was detected by ...