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In pics | NASA’s Chandra X-Ray observatory ‘opens treasure trove of cosmic delights’ – Moneycontrol.com

From Supernova 1987A to Cartwheel galaxy, NASA shares a compilation of images from different missions and telescopes to give a better understanding of the science of the universe. Each of these images contains data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as wel…

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Helix Nebula: When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. This phase is known as a ‘planetary nebula’, and astronomers expect our Sun will experience this in about 5 billion years. This Helix Nebula images contains infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (green and red), optical light from Hubble (orange and blue), ultraviolet from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (cyan), and Chandra’s X-rays (appearing as …

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