Posts Tagged ‘Chandra’

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.

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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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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.

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Star Glasses

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and A. Evans (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

Star glasses look fetch­ing on the odd-looking galaxy called Arp 220. Zoomed out, sun­glasses is what sticks out for me. What sto­ries do you see in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope? Share them with us.

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Flying Dust

NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Dust from the remains of a col­lapsed star flies past a nearby fam­ily of stars in this image from NASA’s Chan­dra and Spitzer space telescopes.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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