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The new collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes \u2013 NASA-CXC-SAO via SWNS<\/p>\n The new collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes \u2013 NASA-CXC-SAO via SWNS<\/p>\n
Space scientists have put together a photo gallery of \u2018cosmic gems\u2019 to showcase the variety of sizes, shapes, and high-energy features of distant galaxies.<\/p>\n
Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own Milky Way with arms emanating from their cores, ellipticals that are older and likely the results of mergers, and irregulars that can encompass a wide range of galactic phenomena.<\/p>\n
Each one of the 16 new pictures contain X-ray telescope data from NASA\u2019s Chandra Observatory collected across decades of operation. (See the gallery in full, here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n That high-energy data has been combined with data from space telescopes like Webb and Hubble, as well as several other arrays both on the ground and in space\u2014including the IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array).<\/p>\n NASA says that studying galaxies offers a way to learn about our own.<\/p>\n \u201cGalaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct,\u201d says Megan Watzke<\/a> of the Chandra X-ray Center.<\/p>\n \u201cJust 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\u2019s place in our home galaxy of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n MORE SPACE PICS: \u201cBy looking outward to other galaxies, we learn more about our own \u2013 including clues to its past and future.\u201d<\/p>\n INSPIRE AN ASTRONOMY STUDENT By Sharing This on Social Media\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes \u2013 NASA-CXC-SAO via SWNS Space scientists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4645,84,3323,111,139,69,5296,147,392,10949],"class_list":["post-592219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-education","tag-nasa","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-space","tag-stargazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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