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![A firey orange, yellow and black sphere next to a comparitively tiny brown sphere](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KBbQQnzzwR3My6e7UgT2z-320-80.png)
These nearby star systems could be good targets in the search for alien life (video)
By Robert Lea published
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have investigated if nearby exoplanets could support life, or if their stars are blasting them with too much deadly high-energy radiation.
![Mixing clouds of orange and blue in deep space](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T9uUQBN54rQpRgoTzzPxwJ-320-80.png)
Dark matter ghosts its way through powerful (and messy) collision of galaxy clusters
By Robert Lea published
Using data from the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes, scientists have determined that dark matter ghosted through the wreckage of two colliding galaxy clusters over 5 billion light-years away.
![a lone spacecraft hangs in the solid black of space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wNCSMAchsmHGFBoRpYGVf5-320-80.jpg)
What it takes to keep NASA's flagship Chandra observatory flying for a quarter century
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the flagship Chandra X-ray observatory, NASA released a behind-the-scenes look at the work it takes to keep the $1.5 billion telescope flying in space.
![four different panels showing colorful clouds of gas in deep space seen against background stars](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YY6KxNxMUJ8etXhJaQNunA-320-80.jpg)
Road trip! Tour the universe with these gorgeous images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope
By Samantha Mathewson published
Newly released images from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope capture a cloud complex called Rho Ophiuchi, the Orion Nebula, a spiral galaxy named NGC 3627 and a galaxy cluster known as MACS J0416.
![a pink and purple spiral in space blasts out a white line from its center](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Yy4LLmSLPRRXa6TMdSZ36J-320-80.jpg)
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan! (video)
By Robert Lea published
Supermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation in their galaxies are shifting targets like real-life Death Stars.
![A purple, blue and other brightly colored view of the Galactic Center.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5XcJZFcjxd7qvXeCeoTVGD-320-80.jpg)
Listen to a symphony for the Milky Way, made from real NASA data (video)
By Monisha Ravisetti published
NASA's sonification project has done it again, this time turning the Galactic Center into a perfectly dissonant symphony.
![The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around Earth.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HtnjxxBGPik9c7YqEsSNMa-320-80.jpg)
NASA's Hubble, Chandra space telescopes face possible budget cuts: report
By Elizabeth Howell published
Two of NASA's flagship space telescopes, Hubble and Chandra, may have less money to spend if budget predictions come through. NASA may reallocate funds to newer missions.
![This image features a galaxy called 3C 297 (bright spot at center right) that is lonelier than expected after it likely pulled in and absorbed its former companion galaxies.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MpUmK7Fpx7AhgEbAAYmDog-320-80.jpeg)
Newfound lonely galaxy is isolated because it ate all its friends (video)
By Elizabeth Rayne published
A distant galaxy is alone because it devoured the other galaxies that once surrounded it, a new study suggests.
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