Northern Constellations Map: June
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/june_const.html
Northern Constellations Map: March
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/march_const.html
This composite image shows Chandra's wide-field view of the area around the Vela Pulsar (background) with an enhanced view of the pulsar and its wind nebula in the inset box. (Credit: NASA/SAO/CXC)
Topic: What -- Vela
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/velawv/more.html
MPEG This animation shows a supermassive black hole within a galaxy like the one located in NGC 1365. Scientists believe that the black hole at the center of the galaxy is fed by a steady stream of material, presumably in the form of a disk. Material just about to fall into a black hole should be heated to millions of degrees before passing over the event horizon, or point of no return. This process creates X-ray light that Chandra can detect. [Runtime: 0:27]
Topic: Where -- NGC 1365
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/ngc1365/animations.html
Color code: Intensity
Topic: What -- Sun
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/proxima/index.html
More Images of G292.0+1.8
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/0112/more.html
A dark dust lane, running to the south and east of the nucleus, is apparent in this 2MASS image, which covers the near-infrared portion of the spectrum. The disk of the galaxy, overall, is much fainter than the bright nucleus. Maiolino et al. propose, based on Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared NICMOS imaging, that this dust lane traces a nuclear gas bar that may be responsible for feeding the active nucleus. (Credit: S. Van Dyk (IPAC))
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- NICMOS, What -- Circinus, What -- Galaxy 2
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/0167/more.html
MPEG & AVI This animation begins with a view outside of Milky Way and then zooms in on one of the spiral arms to the double-star system XTE J1550-564, which contains a black hole and a normal Sun-like star. As gaseous material is pulled off the companion star onto the black hole, it forms a disk that is heated to millions of degrees. The animation then shows the ejection and evolution of the jets of high-energy particles.
Topic: What -- Sun
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/xtej1550/animations.html
This side-view schematic of the Milky Way galaxy, shows the prominent spiral arms, the central galactic bulge, and the location of the Sun. Scale:
Topics: What -- Sun, Where -- Milky Way Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/w3/more.html
Chandra's image of G292.0+1.8 shows remarkable complexity and structure in the debris field of this exploded star. Each color represents different elements such as oxygen, neon, magnesium, and silicon. The distribution of these elements gives astronomers clues about how the star exploded. The close-up zooms into the region around the dense core that remains of the star, seen in the highest-energy X-rays detected by Chandra. (Credit: NASA/CXC/Penn State/S.Park et al.)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/g292/more.html
A long Chandra exposure of M87 has revealed a shock wave in high-energy X-rays as well as evidence for a series of outbursts from the central supermassive black hole. The image shows a series of loops and bubbles in the hot, X-ray emitting gas. These are relics of small outbursts from close to the black hole. Other remarkable features are seen in M87 for the first time including narrow filaments of X-ray emission, which may be due to hot gas trapped to magnetic fields. One of these filaments is...
Topic: Where -- M87
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/m87/more.html
While there are certain similarities between Abell 520 and the so-called Bullet Cluster [ http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/ ], other significant differences raise interesting scientific questions. For example, the dark matter and the galaxies in the Bullet Cluster remained together despite the enormous collision between the galaxy clusters. In the case of Abell 520, these components have been separated, which flies in the face of conventional understanding of dark matter....
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/a520/more.html
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Images of M33 X-7. MPEG This sequence begins with a wide-field optical image from Kitt Peak of M33, a spiral galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth, and then zooms into a view from the Gemini telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Next, the view zooms into an even smaller field, from the Hubble Space Telescope, that includes M33 X-7, the most massive known black hole to be formed from the collapse of a star. The final image is a composite of the region around M33 X-7 that contains both the...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Gemini, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- M33, Where -- Hawaii
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m33x7/animations.html
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern U./C.Law & F.Yusef-Zadeh; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF
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MPEG This series of images shows the DB00-58 star cluster in context with Chandra's 900- by 400-light year mosaic of the Galactic Center. The view then transitions to infrared emission from a smaller region that includes DB00-58, before showing Chandra's X-ray close-up. Despite DB00-58's similar appearance to DB01-42 (#1, above), the X-ray and infrared information show that DB00-58 is, in fact, a foreground object, and is significantly closer to us than 26,000 light years. [Run Time: 0:20]
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/db/animations.html
Astronomers have located an exceptionally massive black hole - almost 16 times the mass of the Sun - in orbit around a huge companion star. By combining observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with optical data from the Gemini telescope, the black hole known as M33 X-7 was determined to be the most massive black hole in its class. This result has intriguing implications for the evolution and ultimate fate of massive stars. (Credit: AURA/Gemini Obs./SDSU/J.Orosz et al.)
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Gemini, Where -- M33
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m33x7/more.html
Chandra's X-ray image (see #1 above) highlights the energetic central regions of the two interacting galaxies that are collectively called the Whirlpool Galaxy. A large number of point-like X-ray sources due to black holes and neutron stars can be seen. Extending to the north and south of the bright nucleus are clouds of multimilliondegree gas. The similarity of these features with ones observed at radio wavelengths, such as in the Very Large Array image shown here, suggests that the gas is...
Topics: What -- Very Large Array, Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/more.html
Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) Animations
Topics: Where -- Whirlpool Galaxy, Where -- M51
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/animations.html
MS 0735.6+7421 with Scale Bar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/ms0735/more.html
The galaxies M81, M82, and NGC 3077 in optical light (top) and radio waves from neutral hydrogen atoms (wavelength of 21 cm HI). The radio image shows tidal streamers of hydrogen gas connecting all three galaxies. These streamers were produced by a collision within the last 300 million years. (Credits: Optical: Digitized sky survey; Radio: NRAO/VLA/M.S.Yun)
Topics: Where -- M81, Where -- M82, Where -- NGC 3077
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2000/m82bh/more.html
The Chandra observations of the bright portion of the Moon detected X-rays from oxygen, magnesium, aluminum and silicon atoms. The X-rays are produced by fluorescence when solar X-rays bombard the Moon's surface. Note that because of the Chandra viewing angle during its observation, the optical image (shown below) is rotated a few degrees from the X-ray image. Scale:
Topic: What -- Moon
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/moon/more.html
MPEG This animation depicts an eruption caused by a supermassive black hole. Gas and dust (reddish-brown disk) are being pulled around by the enormous gravity of the supermassive black hole, which is buried in the center of a large elliptical galaxy. The animation then zooms out to show the full view of the galaxy, which is surrounded by hot gas (red) that pervades the galaxy cluster. White jets, fueled from material falling onto the black hole, then erupt from the black hole and push gas...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/ms0735/animations.html
Cartwheel Galaxy with Scale Bar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/cartwheel/more.html
MPEG This motion graphic begins with a close-up of one of the galaxies, a spiral galaxy approximately the same size as the Milky Way, within the galaxy cluster known as 1E 0657-56. The view then pulls out to show over a thousand galaxies in this cluster. These immense objects are among the largest structures in the Universe. [Runtime: 0:19]
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/animations.html
1E 0657-56 with Scale Bar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/more.html
Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic planet in this sharp image. The Earth-orbiting Hubble telescope snapped this picture on June 26, when Mars was approximately 43 million miles (68 million km) from Earth -- its closest approach to our planet since 1988. The disk of Mars was fully illuminated as seen from Earth because Mars was exactly opposite the Sun. Hubble can see details as small as 10 miles (16 km) across....
Topics: What -- Mars, What -- Earth, What -- Sun, What -- Polar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/mars/more.html
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows Cassiopeia A in infrared light. The faint, blue glow surrounding the dead star is material that was energized by a shock wave, called the forward shock, which was created when the star blew up. The forward shock is now located at the outer edge of the blue glow. Stars are also seen in blue. Green, yellow and red primarily represent material that was ejected in the explosion and heated by a slower shock wave, called the reverse shock wave. The...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Cassiopeia, What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/casa/more.html
Animation of X-ray Flares from a "Young Sun. MPEG This animation shows how X-ray flares from a young star affect a planet-forming disk. Light from the young star is reflected off the inner part of the disk, making it glow. The view zooms in to show small white flares continually erupting on the surface of the young star. A set of huge white magnetic loops then erupts from the star and hits the inside edge of the disk, resulting in an extremely bright flare. X-rays from the flare then heat...
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Orion
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/orion/animations.html
This illustration shows three possible futures for the Universe, depending on the behavior of dark energy, by showing how the scale of the Universe may change with time. If dark energy is constant, as the new Chandra results suggest, the expansion should continue accelerating forever. If dark energy increases, the acceleration may happen so quickly that galaxies, stars, and eventually atoms will be torn apart, in the so-called Big Rip. Dark energy may also lead to a recollapse of the Universe,...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/darkenergy/more.html
MPEG This artist's conception shows how material from the rotating, magnetized neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula is flung outward and along the axis to form a thick ring and jets. [Run time = 0:17 sec]
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/animations.html
Hot Intergalactic Gas Interviews
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/igm/interviews.html
This schematic illustrates how Jupiter's unusually frequent and spectacular auroral activity is produced. Jupiter's strong, rapidly rotating magnetic field (light blue lines) generates strong electric fields in the space around the planet. Particles (white dots) from Jupiter's volcanically active moon, Io, drift outward to create a huge reservoir of electrons and ions. These charged particles, trapped in Jupiter's magnetic field, are continually being accelerated (gold particles) down into the...
Topics: What -- Moon, What -- Io, What -- Polar, What -- Jupiter
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/jupiter/more.html
This image was taken by ROSAT in June of 1990 when the Moon was about half-full. Chandra's observations of the Moon solved a decade-long mystery about X-rays detected by ROSAT that were thought to be coming from the dark portion of the Moon. It turns out that these X-rays only appear to come from the Moon and can be explained by radiation from Earth's geocorona. (Credit: ROSAT/J. Schmitt et al.)
Topics: What -- ROSAT, What -- Moon
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/moon/more.html
N49 with Scale Bar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/n49/more.html
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Credit: Simulation: NASA/STScI/G. Bacon Animation: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Fabbiano et al.
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MPEG The sequence begins by depicting the collision of two large galaxies which now form The Antennae. Gas and stars from the galaxies are ejected into long arcs. The animation then shows how collisions between huge gas clouds in the central region of the merging system trigger a stellar baby boom. Next, as seen in a closer view, the most massive of these stars race through their evolution in a few million years. These stars end their lives as they explode as supernovas that further heat the...
Topic: Where -- Antennae Galaxies
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/antennae/animations.html
Perseus Cluster with Scale Bar
Topic: What -- Perseus
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/perseus/more.html
MPEG This sequence begins with a wide-field optical view of the region surrounding NGC 4555, which includes the large spiral galaxy NGC 4565 (also known as the "Needle Galaxy [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990617.html ]"). It then dissolves into Chandra's X-ray image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4555. The hot gas cloud seen in X-rays is about 400,000 light years in diameter, or twice the size of the galaxy seen in visible light. This reveals that an enormous envelope, or halo,...
Topics: What -- Visible Light, Where -- NGC 4555
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/ngc4555/animations.html
M33 X-7 with Scale Bar
Topic: Where -- M33
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m33x7/more.html
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Credit: NASA, ESA, A. M. Koekemoer (STScI), M. Dickinson (NOAO) and The GOODS Team
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MPEG This video begins with a combined Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope image, dissolving into a Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope image of one of the identified seven AGNs in the GOODS field (033213.9-275000).
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/goodsbh/animations.html
ETA CARINAE: A Massive Supergiant Star
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/1999/0099/what.html
This optical image of the Cloverleaf quasar was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the CfA-Arizona Space Telescope Lens Survey. The position of the images in the X-ray sources align very well with Hubble pictures. A comparison of the X-ray and optical images also shows that image "A" is much brighter in X-rays (see image #1, above) than optical light. This is due to an effect called gravitational microlensing, wherein a star or binary star system in one of the...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- Arizona
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/h1413/more.html
MPEG This sequence of 5 images is part of an ongoing Chandra program that monitors a region around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. Four bright, variable X-ray sources were discovered within 3 light years of Sgr A*. The variability is indicative of an X-ray binary system where a black hole or neutron star is pulling matter from a nearby companion star. Such a high concentration of X-ray binaries in this region is strong circumstantial evidence that a dense swarm of 10,000 or...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/gctr_bin/animations.html
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/NWU/C.Law & F.Zadeh; IR: NASA/ESO/STScI/D.Figer et al.; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/F.Zadeh et al.
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MPEG This sequence begins with Chandra's X-ray view of a 900 by 400 light year swath of the center of the Milky Way. It then zooms into a smaller region where large filamentary structures are seen in radio waves. The view moves in even closer to show the Quintuplet star cluster. Named for its five brightest stars at infrared wavelengths, the Quintuplet is known to be home to hundreds of stars. Several of these are very massive stars that are rapidly losing gas from their surfaces in high-speed...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/quint/animations.html
This visible-light image of GB1508+5714 was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on July 22, 1995. No source is present in the jet region. This archival HST image helps rule out the possibility that the jet in GB1508+5714 is due to a foreground galaxy or a gravitationally lensed image of the quasar. In this image, north is up, and east is to the left. Scale:
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/gb1508/more.html
Composite Image with Scale Bar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/saturn_rngs/more.html
Northern Constellations Map: December
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/december_const.html
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern U./C.Law & F.Yusef-Zadeh; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/F.Zadeh et al.
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MPEG This series of images shows the DB00-58 star cluster in context with Chandra's 900- by 400-light year mosaic of the Galactic Center. The view then transitions to radio emission from a smaller region that includes DB00-6, before showing infrared data, and ending with Chandra's X-ray close-up. . Despite DB00-6's similar appearance to DB01-42 (#1, above), the X-ray and infrared information show that DB00-6 is, in fact, a foreground object, and is significantly closer to us than 25,000 light...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/db/animations.html
Southern Constellations Map: September
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/sept_const.html
DEM L316 with Scale Bar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/d316/more.html
This illustration depicts the motions of a gas cloud in the core of the Fornax cluster and a group of galaxies on the outskirts of the cluster. A collision between the cluster core and the group will occur in a few billion years. The Fornax core and the galaxy group may lie along part of a large filamentary structure of dark matter (shown as a faint gray structure) that is collapsing and flowing in toward a common center. The swept back appearance of the gas in the core of the cluster is due to...
Topic: What -- Fornax
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/fornax/more.html
This labeled image highlights some of the important features of the Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Centaurus A. At the center of the galaxy is where the active nucleus and the launching point for a jet are featured. Particles in the jet and radiation from the active nucleus are both powered by a supermassive black hole. To the upper left the jet is shown, and the shorter "counterjet" points in the opposite direction. (Credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al.)
Topic: What -- Centaurus
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/cena/more.html
When a massive star explodes like the one that produced G292.0+1.8, it creates a shell of hot gas that glows brightly in X-rays. Chandra is able to observe the stellar debris, revealing the dynamics of the explosion. With nearly six days of Chandra observing time devoted to studying G292.0+1.8, astronomers hope they can use this particular remnant to better understand the complicated details of such an explosion. This image shows the high-energy X-rays only (1.810-2.050 and 2.400-2.620 keV)....
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/g292/more.html
This image of the galactic center was taken on March 31, 1984 with NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA). Displayed in red, the image shows some of the filamentary structures that appear in centimeter radio wavelengths. The field of view is the same as the Chandra image. Scale:
Topics: What -- Very Large Array, What -- VLA
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/sgra/more.html
This mosiac of Chandra images shows the intensity of X-rays in the central region of the Milky Way. (Credit: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al.)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/gcenter/more.html
Chandra's observation of the hot halo surrounding the optical disk of NGC 5746 should help astronomers better understand how galaxies form. Spiral galaxies are thought to form from enormous clouds of intergalactic gas that collapse to form spinning disks of stars and gas. The Chandra data and computer simulations show that the likely origin of NGC 5746's hot halo is the gradual inflow of intergalactic matter left over from the formation of the galaxy. (Credit: NASA/CXC/U. Copenhagen/K.Pedersen...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/n5746/more.html
Radio Image of XTE J1550-564 (June 2000). This image of XTE J1550-564 was taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array on June 1, 2000. The stationary black hole is seen at the center of the image and the eastern jet clearly appears in the radio wavelengths. The diagonal tilts of the sources in the image are instrumental artifacts. (Credit: ATCA)
Topic: Where -- Australia
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/xtej1550/more.html
Color code: Intensity: Blue=high-energy; Green=medium energy; Red=low energy
Topic: What -- Cassiopeia
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/1999/casajph/index.html
Artist's Conception of X-ray Binary System. An artist's conception shows a double star system with a normal Sun-like star in orbit around a black hole. As gaseous matter is pulled from the normal star, it forms a disk around the black hole and is heated to temperatures of millions of degrees. Intense electromagnetic forces in the disk can expel jets of high-energy particles. (Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
Topic: What -- Sun
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/xtej1550/more.html
This sequence of images shows a disk of red and yellow gas around a supermassive black hole. As the view pulls back, the formation of stars in the outer regions of the disk is seen. These massive stars form when the gas becomes unstable, despite the black hole's enormous gravitational influence, and collapses inwards. View Animation [ http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/sgra/animations.html#sgra ] (Illustration: NASA/CXC/A.Hobart)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/sgra/more.html
Much of the gas in the disk of the Circinus spiral is concentrated in two specific rings -- a larger one of diameter 1,300 light years another with a diameter of 260 light years. In the Hubble image, the smaller inner ring is located on the inside of the green disk. The larger outer ring extends off the image and is in the plane of the galaxy's disk. This Hubble Space Telescope image of the Circinus Galaxy was taken on April 10, 1999 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. (Credit:...
Topics: What -- Circinus, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, What...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/0167/more.html
Cas A on Blue: This striking color rendition displays a wealth of detail and drama. Note the shock wave on the outer edge, and the blow-out on the upper left, as well as the enigmatic bright spot in the middle. The colors represent X-ray brightness (yellow = brightest, blue = background), not temperature. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO (courtesy, C.Jones)
Topic: What -- Cassiopeia
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/1999/0237/more.html
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Images of Long Galaxy Tail. MPEG This sequence of images begins with a wide-field view of Abell 3627, a giant cluster of galaxies, as seen in X-rays by ESA's XMM-Newton observatory. The view then zooms into an area that shows the galaxy ESO 137-001 as it plunges toward the cluster. First shown in optical light (white) then hydrogen emission (red), the image then turns to the multimillion-degree gas observed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The final image is a composite of all of these data...
Topic: What -- ESO
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/a3627/animations.html
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X-ray: NASA/UMass/Z.Li & Q.D.Wang; Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/T.A.Rector & B.A.Wolpa; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Sequence of Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Images. MPEG Beginning with a wide-field optical view, this sequence of Andromeda Galaxy images moves into an X-ray look of the central region. In this Chandra image, red represents lower energy, green as medium energy, and finally blue as the highest energy X-rays that Chandra detects. This sequence also shows a composite of X-ray and infrared light, before returning to the Chandra-only view. [Runtime: 0:14]
Topics: What -- Andromeda, Where -- M31
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/m31/animations.html
This Chandra X-ray image reveals a barrel-shaped supernova remnant around a glowing bar of intense X-radiation. These X-rays are produced by jets of 15 million degree Celsius gas that is rich in iron and nickel. These features indicate that W49B was produced when the core of a rapidly-rotating massive star collapsed to form a black hole, triggering the ejection of high-energy jets of material. Scale:
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/w49b/more.html
Color code: Energy (Red= 0.3-0.5 keV, Green = 0.5-0.7 keV, Blue = 0.7-1.0 keV)
Topic: What -- Deep Impact
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/dimpact/index.html
This illustration shows two spiral galaxies - each with supermassive black holes at their center - as they are about to collide. The latest Chandra results suggest that such collisions may cause extreme black hole and galaxy growth in the early Universe, setting the stage for the birth of quasars. (Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/smg/more.html
An artist's illustration depicts the sound waves (ripples) in the hot gas that fills the Perseus cluster. Key elements of the system are labeled in the version on the right. The ripple features were discovered by using a special image-processing technique to bring out subtle changes in brightness. These sound waves are thought to have been generated by cavities blown out by jets from a supermassive black hole (bright white spot) at the center of the Perseus cluster.
Topic: What -- Perseus
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/perseus/more.html
This artist's conception illustrates 1E 1207.4-5209, a neutron star with a polar hot spot and a strong magnetic field (purple lines). (Credit: CXC/M. Weiss)
Topic: What -- Polar
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/1132/more.html
The Link Between Flares and Planet Survival: Comments from Joan Najita
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/orion/najita.html
Black" Black Holes: Chandra Uncovers New Evidence For Event Horizons Surrounding Black Holes
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/blackholes/index.html
Scale bar = 5 arcsec (Credit: NASA/UIUC/Y.Chu et al.)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/1220/more.html
This remarkable Chandra image gave scientists their first look at X-rays from Mars. In the sparse upper atmosphere of Mars, about 120 (75 miles) kilometers above its surface, the observed X-rays are produced by fluorescent radiation from oxygen atoms. (Credit: NASA/CXC/MPE/K.Dennerl et al.)
Topic: What -- Mars
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/mars/more.html
MPEG This animation shows a yellow star that travels too close to a giant black hole in the center of the galaxy RX J1242-11. As it nears, the star is stretched by tidal forces from the black hole and is quickly torn apart. Most of the yellow gaseous debris from the star escapes the black hole in parabolic orbits. However, a small amount of material is captured by the black hole and then forms a rotating disk of gas. X-rays are emitted as the gas in the disk is heated (as shown by the blue...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/rxj1242/animations.html
MPEG The first illustration in this sequence shows a doomed star (orange circle) that wanders so close to a giant black hole that the black hole's enormous gravity stretches the star until it is torn apart. Some of the disrupted star's mass (indicated by the white stream) is swallowed by the black hole, while the rest is flung away into the surrounding galaxy. The second illustration shows how the gas that was pulled towards the black hole forms a disk and is heated before being swallowed by...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/rxj1242/animations.html
The optical (H-alpha) image of NGC 4438 shows long filaments of gas extending to the right of the galaxies. Taken by the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), the image is a smaller field of view than the Chandra image and does not include NGC 4435. Scale:
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/ngc4438/more.html
This image represents a snapshot from a movie that shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra. The inner ring is about one light year across. Scale:
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Topic: What -- Snapshot
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/more.html
