EU-Universe Awareness is pleased to announce that its astronomy news service for children, called Space Scoop, will now be working in partnership with the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Since it began in February 2011, Space Scoop has been translating press releases from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) into child friendly language. The new partnership with Chandra will complement these releases about some of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes, by introducing children to space-based astronomy.
Since its launch in 1999, Chandra has given astronomers a new view of the Universe, revealing previously unseen material around exotic objects by observing their energetic X-ray emissions. In particular, Chandra has been instrumental in our understanding of black holes. For example, Chandra made the first observation of X-ray emissions from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way and discovered a new type of black hole in Messier 82.
Read the new Space Scoop to learn about the latest exciting discovery about black holes to come from Chandra.
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