Description: Abell 2029 is composed of thousands of galaxies enveloped in a gigantic cloud of hot gas and an amount of dark matter equivalent to more than a hundred trillion...
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Description: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory image of the distant galaxy 3C295 shows an explosive galaxy enveloped by a vast cloud of fifty million degree gas. The gas cloud, which is...
Description: This Great Observatories view of the famous Sombrero galaxy was made using Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer. The main figure shows the combined image from the three telescopes, while the...
Description: The Chandra image of the Centaurus galaxy cluster shows a long plume-like feature resembling a twisted sheet. The plume is some 70,000 light years in length and has a...