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#astronomy #James Webb Space Telescope #NASA #space #stars #telescopes
X-rays: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optics: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk and K. Arcand
Combining data from some of NASA’s most powerful instruments, four new composites highlight the enormity of the cosmos in unprecedented detail. Images from the Chandra Observatory and the James Webb and Hubble Telescopes, along with infrared information from the Spitzer Telescope’s final missions, intertwine to generate fascinating views of iconic nebulae and galaxies.
Messier 74, a spiral galaxy over 30 million light-years from Earth, is sometimes referred to as the Phantom Galaxy due to its relative obscurity (despite being home to around 100 billion stars!). Webb captured its swirling array in the infrared, illuminating gas and dust, while Chandra provided X-ray data from high-energy stars. Back a little closer to home, for the Pillars of Creation in Messier 16, aka the Eagle Nebula – about 7,000 light-years away – Webb contributed the dusty shapes that envelop fledgling stars and Chandra contributed included shiny blue and red dots.
Explore an in-depth analysis of the images, as well as individual sources, at the Chandra Observatory website, which also includes a star cluster called NGC 34 and the “barred spiral” galaxy NGC 1672. (via PetaPixel)
Composite M74 346. X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optics: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk and K. Arcand
Composite NGC 346. X-rays: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optics: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk and K. Arcand
Composite M74. X-rays: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optics: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk and K. Arcand
Compound M16 (Eagle Nebula). X-rays: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optics: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk and K. Arcand
#astronomy #James Webb Space Telescope #NASA #space #stars #telescopes
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