{"id":612946,"date":"2026-09-03T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612946\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:58:09","slug":"space-scientists-share-16-stunning-cosmic-gem-images-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612946\/","title":{"rendered":"Space scientists share 16 stunning \u2018cosmic gem\u2019 images | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dean Murray<\/p>\n

Space scientists have revealed a gallery of “cosmic gems.”<\/p>\n

A new series of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> and other telescopes displays a collection of galaxies showcasing their variety.<\/p>\n

There are 16 new pictures in the gallery, each one containing X-ray data from Chandra<\/a> that has been collected across the observatory’s decades in space.<\/p>\n

This high-energy data has been combined with data from telescopes such as NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes, IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), and others both on the ground and in space.<\/p>\n

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(NASA\/CXC\/SAO et al. via SWNS)<\/p>\n

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NASA says that studying galaxies<\/a> offers a way to learn about our own.<\/p>\n

Megan Watzke, of the Chandra X-ray Center, said: “Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct.<\/p>\n

“Just as gems reveal the history of Earth through how they were forged over billions of years, these galactic gems are a way to study Earth’s place in our home galaxy of the Milky Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“By looking outward to other galaxies, we learn more about our own \u2013 including clues to its past and future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NASA\/CXC\/SAO et al. via SWNS) By Dean Murray Space scientists have revealed a gallery of “cosmic gems.” A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10667,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-612946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-dean-murray","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}