'Heavens Declare the Glory of God': NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with Stunning Images of Our Milky Way

News Staff : Jul 24, 2019
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"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." -Psalm 19:1

[Chandra @ NASA] To commemorate the 20th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, an assembly of new images is being released. These images represent the breadth of Chandra's exploration, demonstrating the variety of objects it studies as well as how X-rays complement the data collected in other types of light. Some of these images contain Chandra data exclusively and the rest show how X-rays fit with the different types of light that other telescopes collect. (Image: Sagittarius A*; the Galactic Center of the Universe/Credit: X-Ray:NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang et al.; Radio:NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT)

The central region of our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an exotic collection of objects, including a supermassive black hole weighing about 4 million times the mass of the Sun (called Sagittarius A*), clouds of gas at temperatures of millions of degrees, neutron stars and white dwarf stars tearing material from companion stars and beautiful tendrils of radio emission.

The region around Sagittarius A* is shown in this new composite image with Chandra data (green and blue) combined with radio data (red) from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, which will eventually become part of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA)... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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