How many cosmic wonders can you spot?

 

  How many cosmic wonders can you spot?:

Here we have a composite of images provided by @NASAChandraXRay, which sees in X-ray light, and @NASAWebb, which detects infrared light. Together with optical data from @NASAHubble, infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and supporting data from XMM-Newton and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, they made this dazzling view by mapping the data to colors that humans can perceive. Pictured are two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster.⁣

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The star cluster NGC 346, located in The Small Magellanic Cloud is about 200,000 light-years away from Earth. The purple cloud shows the remains of a supernova explosion from a massive star. The “barred” spiral galaxy NGC 1672 is shown and unlike other spiral galaxies, this one has the arms barred straight with stars across the center. You can also spot The Eagle Nebula in the mix with its pillars of gas and dust among the stars. Lastly, we have the spiral galaxy Messier 74 which can be visible to the human eye from Earth. Also known as the Phantom Galaxy for being relatively dim, filled with gas and dust all around. ⁣

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Image description: Here, thousands of specks of light blanket the blackness of space. A ribbon of thick orange cloud runs along the bottom edge of the image, rounds our lower right corner, and streaks up the right side. A similar patch of roiling orange cloud can be found near our upper left. Between these gas plumes, centered near the top of the image, the star cluster is densely packed with specks of white, blue, and purple light. At our left, a large, bright white, gleaming dot is surrounded by purple mist. This is a hot, young, massive star, sending powerful winds outward from its surface. A patch of smaller dots, other young stars, can be found inside a faint purple mist near the center of the image.⁣

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Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, and K. Arcand ⁣

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26 October 2023