NASA shares stunning new images with Chandra X-ray data
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NASA has shared a new set of images captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.
The new images were captured in light invisible to the human eye, including X-rays, infrared, and radio, according to a NASA blog post. These are assigned different colors, allowing us to see the hidden universe with the naked eye.
The five images reveal two remnants of exploded stars, Vela and Kepler, as well as a double-barred spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years away. Another stunning image reveals the wake a galaxy leaves behind as it traverses space-time.
A collection of new Chandra images
The first image shared by NASA shows the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, located some 26,000 light-years from Earth. It reveals superheated clouds of gas, massive stars, neutron stars, and more.
The center of our galaxy contains a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*, which was recently imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team.
Another image of the Kepler supernova remnant reveals the remains of a white dwarf star that exploded in a massive thermonuclear reaction. The Chandra data in the image below is represented in blue, revealing the extent of the cataclysmic blast.
The red in the image represents data from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope and the faint traces of cyan and yellow are optical light captured by Hubble, showing the debris of the destroyed star.
The image below of the galaxy ESO 137-001 shows a galaxy with trailing tails made of superheated gas detected by Chandra in X-rays that are represented in blue.
The galaxy is moving through space at 1.5 million miles per hour, leaving two tails in its wake. The red in the image represents light from hydrogen atoms captured by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope. Optical and infrared data from Hubble is visible in the colors orange and cyan.
Revealing the secrets of the cosmos
The center of the NGC 1365 galaxy, shown below, is home to a supermassive black hole that is gradually being fed a steady stream of material, including hot gas, which was captured by Chandra and is shown in purple.
This image also shows data from NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in red, green, and blue. James Webb has been performing science operations for more than a year now and NASA recently revealed a new image of Sun-like star formation for its one-year anniversary.
The Vera Pulsar image below is made up of data combined from NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), Chandra, and the Hubble Space Telescope. IXPE data is shown in light blue, Chandra in purple, and Hubble in yellow.
Vela is the aftermath of a star that collapsed and exploded and is now sending a storm of particles and energy out into the cosmos.
The Chandra X-ray observatory was launched aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999. It is sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any X-ray observatory that came before it. Most of the X-rays that reach Earth are absorbed by its atmosphere, so Chandra's location in Earth's orbit makes it ideally located to unveil the secrets of the hidden cosmos.
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