[FOTOS] 20 espectaculares imágenes del telescopio Chandra para celebrar sus dos décadas en órbita

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is peering into a globular cluster in Centaurus! Nearby in the sky, intense ultraviolet radiation from a remnant star is causing surrounding gas to glow like a fluorescent sign, advertising the presence of planetary nebula NGC 3918 about 4,900 light years from Earth. #Today's Observation: 8 hours 20 minutes

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 24 Abr, 2019 a las 7:31 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying the core of a galaxy in Fornax! Nearby in the sky is NGC 1097, a galaxy with copious clusters of young, blue stars speckling its spiral arms. This galaxy contains a central black hole about 100 million times the mass of our Sun! #Today's Observation: 14 hours 43 minutes

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 25 Abr, 2019 a las 10:11 PDT

 

 

 

 

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A big, #beautiful bubble of 3 million degree Celsius gas surrounds a dying star about 5,000 light years from Earth. How big is it? The distance across the bubble is roughly 100 times the diameter of our solar system! Object: Planetary Nebula BD+30-3639 Constellation: Cygnus

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 26 Abr, 2019 a las 8:09 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Spanning 60,000 light years, Centaurus A is the 5th brightest galaxy in our sky. A spectacular jet of ionized matter, thousands of light years long, is seen here blasting away from the area around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy! Want this as a new background for your phone or tablet? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/wallpaper/ Want to know more? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 29 Abr, 2019 a las 8:39 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying a cluster of #stars in Camelopardalis! Nearby in the sky is planetary nebula NGC 1501. The progenitor star seen in the center of this nebula looks like a shimmering pearl inside of a glowing shell to some, inspiring the nickname the Oyster Nebula! #Today's Observation: 19 hours 26 minutes #Beautiful #nature

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 30 Abr, 2019 a las 10:03 PDT

 

 

 

 

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If you look just below the 3 stars of Orion's Belt, the Orion Nebula can be seen even without a telescope. X-rays from Chandra (blue) combined with radio emission from NRAO's Very Large Array (purple) provide a vista of this stellar nursery that the unaided human eye could never capture! Want this as a new background for your phone or tablet? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/wallpaper/ NRAO on Instagram: @national.radio.astronomy

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 1 May, 2019 a las 8:26 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is gazing at a galaxies in Hydra! Nearby in the sky is spiral galaxy ESO 510-G13. The warped appearance of this galaxy suggests it has recently undergone a collision with another galaxy and is in the process of consuming it — a process that will take millions of years! #Today's Observation: 4 hours 43 minutes #Beautiful #space #science

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 2 May, 2019 a las 8:27 PDT

 

 

 

 

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About 16,000 light years from Earth, a #beautiful cosmic flower is blossoming! Roughly 70 light years across, supernova remnant G299 has been growing for almost 4,500 years since the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star! #NationalSpaceDay & #ArchivesInBloom About the image: In this Chandra image, red, green, and blue represent low, medium, and high-energy X-rays, respectively, detected by the telescope. The medium energy X-rays include emission from iron and the high-energy X-rays include emission from silicon and sulfur. The X-ray data have been combined with infrared data from ground-based 2MASS survey that shows the stars in the field of view. Want this as a new background for your phone or tablet? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/wallpaper/ Want to know more? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 3 May, 2019 a las 8:18 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying a star in the Lupus constellation! Nearby in the sky is planetary nebula IC 4406. Though the nebula appears rectangular from our perspective, evidence indicates it's actually shaped like a doughnut and we're looking at its side! Want a little more #food for thought? This #space doughnut is also called the "Retina Nebula" — if you think it's shaped like an eye, you're not alone! #Today's Observation: 4 hours 26 minutes

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 6 May, 2019 a las 8:01 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying a black hole in Scorpius. Nearby in the sky is the Butterfly Nebula! Its delicate wings of gas are nearly 20,000 degrees Celsius and they are expanding across #space at over 950,000 km/h — fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes!

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 10 May, 2019 a las 7:35 PDT

 

 

 

 

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#Today Chandra is continuing to study Cassiopeia A to better understand exactly how #stars produce & disseminate many of the chemical elements found on Earth and in the cosmos at large! Take a "Journey through an Exploded Star" with Smithsonian Education & Chandra: https://bit.ly/2W29wI6 ? #space #science #interactive

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 13 May, 2019 a las 7:34 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is gazing at a cluster of galaxies in Draco, the #dragon! Nearby in the sky, the monster black hole at the center of galaxy Markarian 817 is blasting material into #space at over 14 million kilometers per hour! (We think it should be nicknamed #Drogon for the day.) #Today's Observation: 10 hour 16 minutes

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 20 May, 2019 a las 6:50 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying a neutron star in Ophiuchus! Nearby in the #sky is one of the nearest star-forming regions to Earth, the Rho Ophiuchi cloud about 450 light years away. The #beautiful variety of #color seen in this image shows different wavelengths of infrared light! Blue and cyan (blue-green) represent light emitted at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is predominantly from stars. Green and red represent light from 12 and 22 microns, respectively, which is mostly emitted by dust.

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 21 May, 2019 a las 7:44 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Nested in Pavo, the #Peacock constellation, two galaxies are merging into one! The rapidly growing #BlackHole (AGN) in the smaller galaxy is also using its larger neighbor as a #food supply! Want to know more? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 23 May, 2019 a las 9:14 PDT

 

 

 

 

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#Today Chandra is studying planet Jupiter! #Jupiter's X-ray auroras are hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's northern lights. Also unlike Earth, Jupiter's northern & southern auroras appear to behave independently of each other. #New data could help to explain why! Background: Using XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray observations from March 2007 and May and June 2016, a team of researchers produced maps of Jupiter's X-ray emissions and identified an X-ray hot spot at each pole. Each hot spot can cover an area equal to about half the surface of the Earth. The team found that the hot spots had very different characteristics. The X-ray emission at Jupiter's south pole consistently pulsed every 11 minutes, but the X-rays seen from the north pole were erratic, increasing and decreasing in brightness — seemingly independent of the emission from the south pole. This makes Jupiter particularly puzzling. X-ray auroras have never been detected from our solar system's other gas giants, including Saturn. Jupiter is also unlike Earth, where the auroras on our planet's north and south poles generally mirror each other because the magnetic fields are similar. To understand how Jupiter produces its X-ray auroras, the team of researchers plans to combine new and upcoming X-ray data from Chandra and XMM-Newton with information from NASA's Juno mission. If scientists can connect the X-ray activity with physical changes observed in other data, they may be able to determine the process that generates the Jovian auroras and by association X-ray auroras at other planets!

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 29 May, 2019 a las 7:24 PDT

 

 

 

 

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NGC 604 is the largest region of #star formation in the nearby galaxy M33, roughly 2.7 million light years from #Earth. This composite image from Chandra & #Hubble shows part of the neighborhood where about 200 #hot, young, massive stars reside! Want this as a new background for your phone or tablet? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/wallpaper/ Want to know more? https://chandra.harvard.edu/instagram/

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 4 Jun, 2019 a las 11:06 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is gazing at galaxies in Draco! Nearby in the sky are 2 interacting galaxies: LEDA 62867 (left) and NGC 6786 (right). Millions of years from now, after a long and graceful dance, NGC 6786 will likely consume its smaller galactic partner. #Today's Observation: 15 hours 33 minutes #Graceful #Space

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 5 Jun, 2019 a las 6:48 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying #BlackHoles in Ophiuchus! Nearby in the sky is the bipolar Twin Jet nebula. Bipolar planetary nebulae contain not one, but two stars in their centers. The shape of the jets is likely caused by the motion of the two central stars around each other. The pair of jets seen here is streaming out into #space at over 1 million kilometers per hour! #Today's Observation: 20h 50m

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 11 Jun, 2019 a las 7:46 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is gazing at a galaxy cluster in Eridanus, the river constellation! Nearby in the sky is the large spiral galaxy NGC 1232. Roughly twice the size of our Milky Way galaxy, it shines with the light of billions of #stars! #Today's Observation: 9 hours 10 minutes

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 13 Jun, 2019 a las 8:27 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying a #star in Cygnus! Nearby in the sky is Veil Nebula, all that remains of what was once a star about 20 times more massive than our #Sun! This close-up image shows a small section of the nebula roughly 2 light years across where red is hydrogen, green is sulfur, and blue is oxygen. #Today's Observation from #Space: 9 hours 43 minutes

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 31 Jul, 2019 a las 8:30 PDT

 

 

 

 

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Right #now Chandra is studying a quasar in Canes Venatici! Nearby in the sky is M63, also known as the #Sunflower Galaxy. A spiral #galaxy similar in size to our own Milky Way, this celestial blossom contains over 400 billion #stars! #Today's Observation: 5 hours See more #space #pics at: https://chandra.si.edu/

Una publicación compartida de NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory (@nasachandraxray) el 29 Jul, 2019 a las 7:37 PDT