Four telescopes work together to create a gorgeous image of a supernova remnant
A stunning new image of a supernova remnant combines data from four different telescopes to show a colorful, detailed picture of a busy region of space.
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Read more: NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double BangA colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two, exploded stars. This supernova remnant is known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B for short) and is part of a larger region of space where stars have been continuously forming for the past 8 to…
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Finally, a Telescope Named ‘Einstein’ Is Heading to Space
Read more: Finally, a Telescope Named ‘Einstein’ Is Heading to SpaceThe Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitatio…
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Telescopes Illuminate ‘Christmas Tree Cluster’
Read more: Telescopes Illuminate ‘Christmas Tree Cluster’This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, in fact, a cluster of young stars — with ages between about one and five million years old — in our Milky Way about 2,500 light-years away from Earth. The stars in…
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The Best Space Images of 2023
Read more: The Best Space Images of 2023Space is an inky black yonder… but for the countless light sources that pepper the billions of light-years that human instruments can see. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and observatories parked millions of miles from Earth, 2023 has been a terri…
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Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars
Read more: Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby StarsA group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions. A pulsar is the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star collapses into itself to form a neutron star. Rapidly rotating…
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NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play
Read more: NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can PlayFor millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be played by humans. Since 2020, the “sonification” project at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Center has translated the digital data taken by telescopes into notes and sounds. This process allows…
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Record-breaking supermassive black hole is oldest even seen in X-rays
Read more: Record-breaking supermassive black hole is oldest even seen in X-raysThe supermassive black hole is 13.2 billion light-years away and could help uncover the mysteries of how the largest black holes form.
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NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Read more: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black HoleAstronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had never been witnessed before, where its mass is similar to that of its host galaxy. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in…
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NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the “Bones” of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand
Read more: NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the “Bones” of a Ghostly Cosmic HandRotating neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, or pulsars, serve as laboratories for extreme physics, offering high-energy conditions that cannot be replicated on Earth. Young pulsars can create jets of matter and antimatter moving away from the poles of the pulsar, along with an intense wind, forming a “pulsar wind nebula”. In 2001, NASA’s Chandra…
