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This new large Chandra image shows the “Carina Nebula“, a star-forming region in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way only 7,500 light years from Earth.
Chandra’s sharp X-ray vision has detected over 14,000 stars in this region, revealed in a diffuse X-ray glow, and provided strong evidence that massive stars have already self-destructed in this fantastic “supernova factory”.
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Carina Nebula (Click to enlarge, it's big!) - Credit: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.
Lower energy X-rays in this image are red, medium energy X- rays are green, and the highest energy X-rays are blue. The Chandra survey has a large field of 1.4 square degrees, made of a mosaic of 22 individual Chandra pointings.
In total, this image represents 1.2 million seconds – or nearly two weeks – of Chandra observing time. Multi-wavelength data has been used in combination with this new Chandra campaign, including infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Full article at Chandra site
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