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yeah dark matter

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black holes

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supernovas mysterious galactic phenomena

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that hold the secrets to the origin

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evolution and destiny of the universe

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today those secrets are unraveling

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faster than ever due in large part to

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discoveries made by nasa's chandra x-ray

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observatory a powerful telescope system

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designed to view and record x-rays from

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high-energy regions of the universe

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chandra really gives us information

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about the universe that the other

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missions don't and can't it's it's x-ray

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sensitivity sheds light on what's going

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on at very high energies and these are

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processes that you wouldn't even have

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suspected were going on if there weren't

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x-rays there to tell you about them

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and from this you know we have been able

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to pin down black holes and neutron

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stars and supernova in a way that

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couldn't be done without this type of

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instrument

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chandra has the most sophisticated x-ray

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detection system ever built providing

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scientists with astronomical details

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previously inaccessible

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the observatory has three components the

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x-ray telescope whose four pairs of

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mirrors focus x-rays from celestial

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bodies

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science instruments that record the

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x-rays from which images are produced

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for analysis

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and the spacecraft itself which provides

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a safe environment for the telescope and

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instruments

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flying more than 200 times higher than

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hubble more than a third of the way to

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the moon

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chandra observes x-rays from clouds of

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gas some of which are so vast it takes

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light five million years to go from one

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side to the other there's two kinds of

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questions that that chandra has been

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focusing on lately one of them is more

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cosmological in nature having to do with

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the existence of dark matter and the

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existence of dark energy both of which

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chandra can

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shed some light on and these are very

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pressing problems with today's cosmology

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issues another area that chandra's been

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making a lot of progress lately is the

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study of supernova remnants it's

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discovered the most recent supernova

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that has taken place in our galaxy and

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in some of the older supernova remnants

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it's been

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measuring the temperature structure and

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supernova remnant

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nine years after launch and deployment

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of this technological marvel in 1999

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chandra continues to operate smoothly

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delivering exclusive premier images of

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galaxy clusters remnants of exploding

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stars and other events of the cosmos