Twin NASA X-Ray Telescopes Snap Tendrils of a Cosmic Space Monster, Just a Pulsar

 NASA only planned to squeeze around five years of service out of its Chandra X-ray Observatory. But almost 25 years after departing the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, valuable information about the cosmos is still collected by the probe every year. Every once in a while, Chandra gets to share some truly spectacular photographs among the terabytes of technical data the probe processes in a given day. But we doubt there's a person out there who thought Chandr... (continue reading...)