{"id":901769,"date":"2026-09-22T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:06:11","slug":"nasas-chandra-finds-unusual-objects-in-pinwheel-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901769\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Chandra Finds Unusual Objects in Pinwheel Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/chandra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a>, researchers found mysterious objects that give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels of ultraviolet radiation. One of the galaxies they studied, M101, is pictured here in this image released on Sept. 9, 2026. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies may help solve not one, but two long-standing questions in astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/chandra\/nasas-chandra-unveils-mysterious-x-ray-objects\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this discovery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image description: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/Univ. of Alabama\/M. Muhibullah et al.; Optical: NASA\/ESA\/STScI; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/N. Wolk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found mysterious objects that give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,36750,128,285],"class_list":["post-901769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-galaxies","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}