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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 ...
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The Hubble Space Telescope isn’t the only orbiting observatory sending back incredible images from the depths of space; here’s a picture generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory combined with optical imagery: a group of colliding galaxies known as “Stephan’s Quintet.” Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/E. O’Sullivan Optical: Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum This beautiful image ...
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From APOD, this stunning false-color composite picture combines a Hubble Space Telescope image with data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory, showing the intense X-ray activity of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, 3,000 light years from Earth.
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