{"id":622099,"date":"2026-09-12T04:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622099\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T04:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:38:15","slug":"nasas-chandra-spots-galactic-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622099\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096 system. This and several other images of both visually and scientifically interesting galaxies were released by <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> and other telescopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chandra X-ray data (magenta) pinpoint powerful black hole activity and hot gas, while optical data (blue and white) from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope and infrared data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope illuminate vast stellar nurseries hidden behind interstellar dust. Systems like II Zw 096 show us how powerful galaxy collisions shaped the early universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/chandra\/galactic-gems-glisten-in-new-gallery-from-nasas-chandra\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See more galaxy photos from Chandra.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical: NASA\/ESA\/STScI; Infrared: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare and J. Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[131568,61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-622099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-galaxy-mergers","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622099","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=622099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}