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The stars in watercolor
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.); Optical (NASA/STScI/C.P.O’Dea); Radio (NSF/VLA/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.)
Unusual and intriguing shapes float out of this combined starry image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Black Hole Makes a Bright “O”
Credit: Walter Jaffe/Leiden Observatory, Holland Ford/JHU/STScI, and NASA/h6>
A giant disk of cold gas, looking like a giant “O” in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, may be fueling a possible black hole in the core of NGC 4261. Astronomers estimate this disk to be about 300 light-years across.
Astral “J”
Credit: NASA, ESA and K. Cook (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
What looks like a astral “J” is a combined view from NASA’s Hubble, Chandra and NRAO’s Very Large Array showing a galaxy cluster called M3735.6+7421 bound together by gravity.
The Super Power of ‘F’
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al.; Submillimeter: MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al.; Optical: ESO/WFI
Centaurus A displays the full power of a supermassive black hole.
Sleepy Not
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO.
Sleepy looking eyes stare out from the galactic core in this image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Telescope. But this scene is nothing but serene with a wide range of stellar evolution underway.
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