NGC 1850 is a bright, double star cluster that lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way. It contains a black hole with a mass of about 11 Suns, and a companion star. No clear detection of X-rays with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory implies that the black hole is not quickly pulling material away from its companion. The X-rays are from Chandra (magenta), while the optical are from Hubble Space Telescope (red, yellow, green, cyan, blue) and the infrared from Spitzer Space Telescope (red)
This composite image features a double star cluster, a blue-tinted cloud, and several neon purple dots. This double cluster is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way. The bright, golden stars in the larger cluster fill the upper center of the image. The other cluster is much smaller and coincides with one of the neon purple circles located slightly above and to the right of the image’s center. This and the other purple circles are X-ray sources detected with Chandra. To our left of the combined cluster is a vertical streak of blue-tinted cloud. Extending beyond the upper and lower edges of the image, this section of cloud resembles wafting smoke from a cigarette.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, S. Wolk
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Over the last month, NASA's Exploration Ground Systems team has made significant progress stacking NASA's Space Launch System solid rocket boosters for the #Artemis II mission.
Now, both boosters stand one aft assembly and one segment tall inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in this 2012 image shows the distribution of hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters that is located about 2.4 billion light years from Earth, and provides evidence that a collision took place.
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G350.1-0.3 is a young and exceptionally bright supernova remnant in our galaxy. While many supernova remnants are nearly circular, G350.1-0.3 is strikingly asymmetrical as seen in this 2012 image of X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers think that this bizarre shape is due to stellar debris field expanding into a nearby cloud of cold molecular gas. With an age of between 600 and 1200 years old G350.1-0.3 is in the same time frame as other famous supernovas that formed the Crab and SN 1006 supernova remnants. However, it is unlikely that anyone on Earth would have seen the explosion because of the obscuring gas and dust that lies along our line of sight to the remnant.
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The crew of Expedition 72 aboard the International Space Station is beginning the New Year preparing for an upcoming spacewalk to service science hardware and install communications gear. The space station residents also conducted space agriculture and worked on cargo duties at the beginning of the week.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Don Pettit rounded out their day conducting science and transferring cargo, working in the Columbus laboratory module thinning Red Romaine lettuce seedlings to learn how to grow food crops on space missions. Wilmore transferred cargo in and out of the Cygnus cargo craft that has been berthed to the Unity module since Aug. 6, 2024.
This image shows a vivid aurora as it streams over the Earth as the space station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean in between Australia and Antarctica.
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