**JKCS041: Galaxy Cluster Smashes Distance Record!

The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data
from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes.
The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light years away, and is observed
as it was when the Universe was only about a quarter of its present age.
 The galaxy cluster, known as JKCS041, beats the previous record holder by
about a billion light years. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally
bound objects in the Universe. Finding such a large structure at this very
early epoch can reveal important information about how the Universe evolved
at this crucial stage.

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 http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/jkcs041/

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**Chandra Blog:  Chandra Source Catalog: Onto The Google Sky (Part 1)
Ken Glotfelty writes on how the Chandra Source Catalog – the definitive list
of what the Chandra has observed over its lifetime – has made its way into
Google Sky.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/blog/node/164

 **Chandra Chronicles:   Deep Impact – Chandra Top Ten (Plus One) in Ten:
In its first decade of exploration, Chandra has expanded our view of the
universe with its unrivaled abililty to create high-resolution X-ray images
of cosmic phenomena: X-ray sources produced by matter circling only a few
miles from a black hole, whirling, super-dense neutron stars expelling
fingers and rings of extremely high energy particles, a look at the insides
of an exploded star, and clouds of hot degree gas in galaxy clusters
millions of light years across.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle

**Chandra Podcasts:  NGC 6240 in 60 Seconds
NGC 6240 is a system in which two supermassive black holes are a mere 3,000
light years apart, virtually nothing in astronomical terms.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/podcasts/hd

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**Chandra in Second Life
In Second Life, you can find Chandra X-ray Observatory images as free
textures on the islands.
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