File:A cluster of galaxies about 170 million light years from Earth, located in the constellation Centaurus. (2941487498).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionA cluster of galaxies about 170 million light years from Earth, located in the constellation Centaurus. (2941487498).jpg |
Description: The Chandra image of the Centaurus galaxy cluster shows a long plume-like feature resembling a twisted sheet. The plume is some 70,000 light years in length and has a temperature of about 10 million degrees Celsius. It is several million degrees cooler than the hot gas around it, as seen in this temperature-coded image in which the sequence red, yellow, green, blue indicates increasing temperatures. The plume of relatively cool gas contains a mass comparable to 1 billion suns and may have been produced by the movement of the central galaxy through the cluster. Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray Date: 2002 Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0146/ Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Gift line: NASA/IoA/J. Sanders & A. Fabian Accession number: centaurus_cluster02 |
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Author | Chandra X-ray Observatory Center |
Copyright holder | http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html |
Headline | A cluster of galaxies about 170 million light years from Earth, located in the constellation Centaurus. |
Credit/Provider | NASA/IoA/J. Sanders & A. Fabian |
Source | Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 29 January 2002 |
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Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 10:29, 30 September 2008 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Image width | 2,100 px |
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Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 06:29, 30 September 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:39, 8 October 2008 |
Keywords | Centaurus Cluster of Galaxies |
Contact information | cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
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IIM version | 2 |