chandratelescope

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SNR G54.1+0.3 (A supernova remnant about 16,000 light years from Earth.)

from Smithsonian Institution

  • an android's memoirs said:
    great!

The fifth planet from the Sun, as seen at a distance of about 400 million miles.

from Smithsonian Institution

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  • Andréa Farias Farias said:
    :) pena que esta muito longe! Bem bonito.
  • Space][rucker said:
    Last time I was there the battery was dead on my camera. Nice to finally see a picture.
  • :: SL Emerick said:
    Amazing!!
  • Marvelous Sleep said:
    Woh, what's with the purple poles?
  • Smithsonian Institution said:
    Thanks for your interest! In preparation for New Horizon's approach of Jupiter, Chandra took 5-hour exposures of Jupiter on February 8, 10, and 24th. In this new composite image, data from those separate Chandra's X-ray observations were combined, and then superimposed (in purple) on the latest image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter shows intense X-ray emission associated with auroras in its polar regions. Extended monitoring by Chandra showed that the auroral X-rays are caused by highly charged particles crashing into the atmosphere above Jupiter's poles.

B1509-58: Chandra Examines A Quadrillion-volt Pulsar (A neutron star located about 19,000 light years away in the constellation Circinus.)

from Smithsonian Institution