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Peering into the Galactic Center

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:40 pm PDT

The Hubble Space Telescope gets all the publicity, but there’s another orbiting telescope that sees into the X-ray spectrum and is also sending back mind-bending images from the depths of space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The latest photograph from Chandra shows the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and ...

Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Astronomy, Milky Way, black hole

Immense Magnetic Tentacles

Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:57 pm PDT

Revealed in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope: gigantic gaseous filaments up to 20,000 light years long, shaped by the magnetic field of a super-massive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A.C. Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)

LGF, Space, Science, Hubble Space Telescope, black hole, Astronomy