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NASA releases stunning new image of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’ – The Sydney Morning Herald
The image is a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Cape Canaveral: NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxys violent, super-energised downtown.
Its a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and countless black holes in the centre, or heart, of the Milky Way. A radio telescope in South Africa also contributed to the image, for contrast.
This false-colour X-ray and radio frequency image shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the centre…
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