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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…