11 January 2019
Birth of a black hole possibly captured for first time
...and ground-based telescopes including ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR and Swift space telescopes ... we don’t completely understand,” says Norbert Schartel, ESA’s XMM-Newton project scientist. “One satellite, one instrument alone, would ...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... the gap between the current generation of hard X-ray satellites - like NuSTAR, INTEGRAL, SWIFT, Chandra, RXTE, XMM-Newton - and NASA’s Fermi Large Area Telescope, making pioneering observations of the most powerful Galactic and extragalactic...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... Exoplanetary Systems Treasury Survey, or MUSCLES for short. MUSCLES uses observations of X-rays made with Chandra and XMM-Newton, ultraviolet observations with Hubble, and visible observations from Hubble and ground-based observatories. Why study...
12 August 2016
Astronomers spot two merging galaxy clusters bridged by X-rays
... Research and Leiden Observatory have imaged using data taken from the Suzaku satellite and the XMM-Newton telescope. During a merger of galactic proportions, an enormous amount of energy is released (around 1064 erg which is equivalent to 1057...
31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... in space and on the ground including Chandra, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, ESA's XMM-Newton and Herschel Space Observatory, the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... science works." Moving forward, the team say they will search the archives of both Chandra and XMM-Newton for more exoplanet candidates in other galaxies. Another interesting line of research is to search for X-ray transits from...
