August 26, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Astronomer spots a ribbon of gas extending more than 20 kiloparsecs (65,000 light years) from Seyfert galaxy
That filament is almost as big as the galaxy itself, which is also an AGN galaxy like the galaxy image I posted earlier today. You can read the paper here.
- On this day 25 years ago Chandra released its “first light image,” an X-ray false-color image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
The gas cloud shown in X-rays is estimated to be about 10 light years across, formed when the star went boom 300 years ago.
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Astronomer spots a ribbon of gas extending more than 20 kiloparsecs (65,000 light years) from Seyfert galaxy
That filament is almost as big as the galaxy itself, which is also an AGN galaxy like the galaxy image I posted earlier today. You can read the paper here.
- On this day 25 years ago Chandra released its “first light image,” an X-ray false-color image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
The gas cloud shown in X-rays is estimated to be about 10 light years across, formed when the star went boom 300 years ago.