What it takes to keep NASA’s flagship Chandra Observatory flying for a quarter of a century

For the past 25 years, NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray Observatory recorded X-ray emissions from exploding stars, supermassive black holesgalaxy clusters and other exotic, high-energy pockets of our universe, allowing scientists…

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: The ground-breaking mission to create a 10-year time-lapse movie of the universe

Astronomers are about to begin capturing the night sky through time using the largest digital camera ever built. Designed to reveal any new or moving point of light as well…

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