The Telescope That Revealed the X-Ray Universe

Some of the most exciting phenomena in space can’t be seen from Earth because our atmosphere soaks up high-energy light. That’s why NASA built Chandra, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever launched, and the observatory has helped scientists make major discoveries about high-energy events in space, including the processes surrounding the birth and death of stars! And the Chandra is our pin of the month! Order yours before the end of September: https://store.dftba.com/collections/complexly/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-chandra-x-ray-observatory-september Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.391566 https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/specs.html https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1990-049A https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/axaf_mission.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/cxoquick.html https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.astro.37.1.363 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090803.html https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/432099 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/432096 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/312438/pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41115-020-0008-5 https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/casa_life/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7316 https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3973 https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2019/bhfeedback/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00814 https://chandra.si.edu/press/12_releases/press_050912.html Image Sources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20281 https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/spacecraft.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-93_Payload_Bay_Door_Closure_-_GPN-2000-000854.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faring0814_03.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CGRO_s37-96-010.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Nebula_-_Hubble_2006_mosaic_18000.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/x-rays-from-a-newborn-star-hint-at-our-suns-earliest-days.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_Impression_of_a_Baby_Star_Still_Surrounded_by_a_Protoplanetary_Disc.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11735 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/chandra-reveals-the-elementary-nature-of-cassiopeia-a.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XZ_Tauri_-_HL_Tauri.pn