Chandra Observatoryさんのイラストまとめ

⚫Today Chandra is looking in on the central, supermassive #BlackHole (SMBH) in the Andromeda Galaxy. Our Milky Way's SMBH, Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius Ā-Star"), is about 4 million times the mass of our Sun. Andromeda's SMBH contains more than 20 times that much mass!

In the southern portion of the Eagle Nebula, about 6,000 light years from Earth, three towers of gas & dust standing roughly 4-5 light years tall are giving rise to new stars from within their wispy spires. https://t.co/sduFZxh0xV

💥When the titans of space — galaxy clusters — collide, extraordinary things can happen. A new study using NASA's Chandra examines the repercussions after clusters clashed in Abell 1775, a system where a smaller galaxy cluster has plowed into a larger one. https://t.co/PjHA0d6F1J

N63A is one of the biggest supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud — more than 25 light years from side to side. Violent shock waves triggered by the supernova explosion have caused portions of this remnant to reach temperatures that exceed 10 million degrees Celsius.😮

🌀Today Chandra is peering into galaxy NGC 1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy. The bar in this galaxy rotates clockwise with velocities in the nucleus of about 2,000 kilometers per second, resulting in roughly one rotation in 350 million years.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was named in honor of Indian-American Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Known as Chandra ("moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit), he was widely regarded as one of the foremost astrophysicists of the 20th century. #LearnWhatYourNameMeansDay 1/3

NGC 346 is located about 200,000 light years from Earth. One of the brightest regions of star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud, it's roughly 200 light years across, home to over 70,000 stars, and shaped like a pig. Is that last part hogwash? Sorry to boar you. #PigDay 🐷

Right #now Chandra is studying ultraluminous X-ray sources, or ULXs, in the Whirlpool Galaxy. ULXs, such as the one circled in the image, can glow with X-ray light equal in luminosity to the light produced at all wavelengths from millions of Suns. More: https://t.co/H91WkZn2tG

A pulsar is whizzing away from a supernova remnant at more than 4 million kilometers per hour. Likely ejected during the supernova explosion, the pulsar has left behind a tail that stretches for over 37 light years! More: https://t.co/NsJtxETM8P

Right #now Chandra is looking for black holes in Hydra. Nearby in spiral galaxy M83, a black hole had a remarkable outburst, its X-ray output increasing by about 3,000 times! https://t.co/ZimWdZOhvj — #Today's Obs: 8h 53m