Tag: Zwicky 8338

An extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail has been discovered using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The tail is located in the galaxy cluster Zwicky 8338, which is almost 700 million light years from Earth. The length of the tail is more than twice the diameter of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Bonn/G. Schellenberger et al; Optical: INT

Zwicky 8338: NASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Amazing Galactic X-Ray Tail

MessageToEagle.com | December 22, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – An extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail has been discovered using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This ribbon, or X-ray

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