{"id":79662,"date":"2018-06-16T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/chandra-space-telescope-revealing-the-invisible-universe"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T07:06:55","slug":"chandra-space-telescope-revealing-the-invisible-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/chandra-space-telescope-revealing-the-invisible-universe","title":{"rendered":"Chandra Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chandra-space-telescope-revealing-the-invisible-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chandra X-Ray Observatory is a NASA telescope that looks at black holes, quasars, supernovas, and the like \u2013 all sources of high energy in the universe. It shows a side of the cosmos that is invisible to the human eye.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a decade in service, the observatory has helped scientists glimpse the universe in action. It has watched galaxies collide, observed a black hole with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/14641-black-hole-20-million-mph-winds.html\">cosmic hurricane winds<\/a>, and glimpsed a supernova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15100-supernova-explosion-star-guts.html\">turning itself inside<\/a> out after an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The telescope \u2013 billed as one of NASA\u2019s Great Observatories along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15892-hubble-space-telescope.html\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17884-universe-expansion-speed-hubble-constant.html\">Spitzer Space Telescope<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/cgro\/index.html\">Compton Gamma Ray Observatory<\/a> \u2013 has been a public relations tool for the agency, as well. Its pictures are frequently used by NASA in press releases.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18669-chandra-x-ray-observatory.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/18669-chandra-x-ray-observatory.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chandra X-Ray Observatory is a NASA telescope that looks at black holes, quasars, supernovas, and the like \u2013 all sources of high energy in the universe. It shows a side of the cosmos that is invisible to the human eye. After more than a decade in service, the observatory has helped scientists glimpse the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79797,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79662\/revisions\/79797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}