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Celebrating NASA and JAXA’s Collaborations in X-ray Astronomy

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Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster
X-ray observations made by the Suzaku observatory provide the clearest picture to date of the size, mass and chemical content of a nearby cluster of galaxies. The study also provides the first direct evidence that million-degree gas clouds are tightly gathered in the cluster's outskirts
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Suzaku Finds Fossil Fireballs from Supernovae
Suzaku studies of supernovae have revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions. Even after thousands of years, gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
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Suzaku Catches Retreat of a Black Hole's Disk
Studies of one of the galaxy's most active black-hole binaries reveal a dramatic change that will help scientists better understand how these systems expel fast-moving particle jets.
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Suzaku Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal
The most abundant elements in our Universe are hydrogen and helium, but these cosmic lightweights fill only two spots on the periodic table. Recently astronomers discovered the largest known reservoir of rare metals in the Universe.
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Suzaku Snaps First Complete X-ray View of a Galaxy Cluster
The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's outskirts, where a billion-year plunge to the center begins.
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Celebrating NASA and JAXA’s Collaborations in X-ray Astronomy

Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet of Perseus Galaxy Cluster

Suzaku Finds Fossil Fireballs from Supernovae

Suzaku Catches Retreat of a Black Hole's Disk

Suzaku Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal

Suzaku Snaps First Complete X-ray View of a Galaxy Cluster