Posts Tagged ‘Chandra’
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.
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.
Cosmic Sea Turtle
Credit: NASA & ESA
A cosmic sea turtle, lobster or butterfly dives into a cosmic sea in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6240. This peculiar image shows the collision of two smaller galaxies. While called collisions, these galaxies are merging together. Gas and dust bump together to form new stars. Existing stars themselves are not really disrupted by the merger. After several million years the stars will settle into new orbits around a new galactic center. Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory show two giant black holes, the centers of the two galaxies, closing in on each other. Right now, they are only about 3,000 light years apart. Eventually they will merge into a single black hole and become the center of the new galaxy that is forming.
Visions of the Galactic Core
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI
I imagine that when Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens in 1609, he hoped that men would see wonders beyond imagination. His observations of the heavens changed the way we view the universe. Every image returned from the great observatories, Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer, have been impressive and wondrous. Some of the images leave us speechless, others remind us of art, spawn inspiration and spur discussion.
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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…Read More
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