(10 May) Rogue Pulsar Snaps Galactic Bone in Milky Way’s Spine
NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's longest filaments.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/khhqt
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/7nsk5 ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/7sjhj
We talked about Cassiopeia A (Cas A) during our #Astronomy episode on #cassiopeia here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/cassiopeia-cosmic-background/
And, gotta say, this 3D rendering does not disappoint!!!
#AstroDon #Space #Science #Chandra #Supernova #Astro #JWST #Webb #NASA
Ever see an #astrophotography image and it just feels too... 2D?!
#Chandra & friends have the answer: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/3dmodels/index.html
As an example, here is G292.0+1.8, a supernova remnant located in the #constellation #Centaurus (we covered this constellation's #astronomy here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/and #mythology here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-myths-and-retconstellations/)
Spider pulsars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri 
To learn about this globular cluster & more on the #astronomy of the #constellation #Centaurus check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/
This is G292.0+1.8 (a really memorable name 
) -- it's a supernova remnant with a pulsar located in the #constellation #Centaurus as seen by #Chandra
You can learn more about the #astronomy of the #constellation #Centaurus, here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/
Jordan & I are scheduled to do some recording today!
In the meantime, here is a view of #Centaurus A from #Chandra (and other sources)!
You can learn more about the #astronomy of the #constellation #Centaurus here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/
L’amas d’étoiles NGC 602 : image, description et vidéo
https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/ngc602/
#NASA #satellite #Chandra #Webb #amas #étoiles #galaxie #NGC602 #astrophysique #SAO #Harvard
Les satellites Hubble et Chandra trouvent un duo de trous noirs supermassifs
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-022.html
#science #tech #NASA #Hubble #Chandra #trounoir #galaxies #astronomie #astrophysique
Some good news about Chandra via Yvette Cendes (@whereisyvette.bsky.social) on BlueSky.
The X-ray telescope had been facing mission-ending-level budget cuts. They have been given a 1-year reprieve to avoid layoffs.
QT Jeff Foust @jfoust
2024 July 28
"Senate spending bill pushes back on proposed NASA mission cuts"
"The report directs NASA to spend at least $98.3 million on Hubble and up to $72.1 million on Chandra, similar to the budgets for those missions in recent years"
https://spacenews.com/senate-spending-bill-pushes-back-on-proposed-nasa-mission-cuts/
Les descriptions des 25 nouvelles images diffusées par la NASA à l’occasion du 25e anniversaire des observations au rayon X effectuées par le télescope spatial Chandra.
https://www.chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/25th/more.html
#astrophysique #NASA #Chandra #rayonX #science #télescope #images
Exemple > Image 18 : NGC 3324 – Crédit : X-ray: NASA/CXC/Ludwig Maximilian Univ./T. Preibisch et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk
Pour célébrer le 25e anniversaire de l'observatoire de rayons X Chandra de la NASA, l'équipe Chandra a publié un ensemble de 25 nouvelles images d'objets et de phénomènes cosmiques
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/chandra-13123.html
#astrophysique #NASA #Chandra #télescope #science #rayonx #images
Happy 25th launch-iversary to Hubble’s frequent partner in science, NASA’s #Chandra X-ray Observatory. 
What a wild, wonderful quarter-century it’s been! Explore this collaborative image of the Bullet Cluster, key evidence for the existence of dark matter: https://bit.ly/4csUY82 #Chandra25
Today is the most powerful x-ray telescope’s 25 anniversary in space. Astronomers say Chandra is going strong and could last another decade, but NASA officials have proposed slashing its funding so $ could go to science missions and telescopes of the future
Black holes in general tend to rotate very fast, as they try to conserve angular momentum while shrinking in size.
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy Sgr A* (4.3 million solar masses!) is spinning with an angular velocity that is ~60% of the max possible value, and with an angular momentum of ~90% of the max possible value.
Sgr A*'s spin causes the spacetime around it to be squashed down to the shape of a spinning football.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/telescopes-show-the-milky-ways-black-hole-is-ready-for-a-kick/
#quasar #Chandra
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This composite image from 2014 also contains 4 images of quasar RX J1131-1231. It uses data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble.
X-ray data from Chandra was used to measure the spin of the quasar's supermassive black hole.
X-rays emitted and distorted from a region in the accretion disk located ~3x the radius of the event horizon led to the result that space-time at the black hole's event horizon is spinning at ~50% the speed of light.
https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/rxj1131/
#quasar #Chandra
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Neat set of "visual synonyms" in nature/science (including Tycho's #supernova remnant & other #astrophotography images)!
(tho, the headline of the piece is a lil... 
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Chandra X-ray Observatory Threatened by Budget Cuts - Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in July of 1999, the Chandra X-ray Obse... - https://hackaday.com/2024/04/10/chandra-x-ray-observatory-threatened-by-budget-cuts/ #chandrax-rayobservatory #spacetelescope #currentevents #featured #chandra #space #nasa
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