NASA has launched a surprising new image of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.”
It’s a composite of 370 observations over the previous 20 years by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and numerous black holes within the heart, or coronary heart, of the Milky Approach. A radio telescope in South Africa additionally contributed to the picture, for distinction.
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Astronomer Daniel Wang of the College of Massachusetts Amherst stated Friday he spent a yr engaged on this whereas caught at dwelling through the pandemic.
“What we see within the image is a violent or energetic ecosystem in our galaxy’s downtown,” Wang stated in an e mail. “There are loads of supernova remnants, black holes, and neutron stars there. Every X-ray dot or function represents an lively supply, most of that are within the heart.”
His work seems within the June concern of the Month-to-month Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Launched in 1999, Chandra is in an excessive oval orbit round Earth.
