Tag: Abell 2142

This new image shows one way: the capture of galaxies as they are drawn in by the extraordinarily powerful gravity of a galaxy cluster. In the left panel, a wide-field view of the cluster, called Abell 2142, is seen. Abell 2142 contains hundreds of galaxies embedded in multi-million-degree gas detected by Chandra (purple). The center of the galaxy cluster is located in the middle of the purple emission, in the lower part of the image. Only the densest hot gas is shown here, implying that less dense gas farther away from the middle of the cluster is not depicted in the purple emission. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Geneva, D. Eckert. Optical: SDSS provided by CDS through Aladin.

Gigantic X-Ray Tail Of Hot Gas Spotted Thanks To Chandra X-ray Observatory

MessageToEagle.com | October 1, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – A gigantic X-ray tail of hot gas was spotted by astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory. The tail is stretching for more than a million light

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