Chandra
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Space & Cosmos
Chandra and Hubble tune into the ‘flaming’ guitar nebula
Overview of the guitar’s shape in X-ray and optical images. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford University/M. de Vries et al. Optics: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI and (Palomar) Hale Telescope/Palomar/California Institute of Technology. Overview: NASA/CXC/K. Divona; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare A ‘flame throwing guitar’, usually only seen in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic movies, has been seen traveling through space. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra…
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Space & Cosmos
NASA’s Chandra discovers galaxy cluster crossing river
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Xiamen University/C. Ge; Optics: DESI Collaboration; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory have discovered two intersecting streams of superhot gas in a cluster of galaxies, a finding that suggests the intersection of gas streams could lead to the formation of new structures. Researchers have discovered a huge, comet-like tail of hot gas stretching more…
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