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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Eagle Nebula with X-ray Hot Stars
NASA ^
| 25 Jul, 2023
| Image Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitz
Posted on 07/25/2023 1:13:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What do the famous Eagle Nebula star pillars look like in X-ray light? To find out, NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory peered in and through these interstellar mountains of star formation. It was found that in M16 the dust pillars themselves do not emit many X-rays, but a lot of small-but-bright X-ray sources became evident. These sources are shown as bright dots on the featured image which is a composite of exposures from Chandra (X-rays), XMM (X-rays), JWST (infrared), Spitzer (infrared), Hubble (visible), and the VLT (visible). What stars produce these X-rays remains a topic of research, but some are hypothesized to be hot, recently-formed, low-mass stars, while others are thought to be hot, older, high-mass stars. These X-ray hot stars are scattered around the frame -- the previously identified Evaporating Gaseous Globules (EGGS) seen in visible light are not currently hot enough to emit X-rays.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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Above Without Xray image
Above With Xray image
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:13:52 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:14:29 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:19:00 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: MtnClimber
XXX STARS?.....................
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:22:34 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: No name given
No, they’re ‘HOT’ didn’t you read the title?.............
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:24:09 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
What I meant to say was those were cool looking pictures. My apologies.
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:35:15 PM PDT
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No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: MtnClimber
Looks like a Praying Mantis in a pomegranate seed storm.
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:36:43 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Never apologize for being wrong in this community, some of us don’t have time to write all the retractions.
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:39:27 PM PDT
by
Colt1851Navy
(What was wrong with Nixon?)
To: No name given ; Red Badger
What I meant to say was those were cool looking pictures. My apologies. I think RB was just using sarcasm, and didn't mean his post in any hostile way.
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:40:10 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: MtnClimber
That looks like the Evil Claw nebula to me.
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posted on
07/25/2023 1:46:09 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
Looks more like Satan’s Hand than an eagle to me.
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posted on
07/25/2023 2:02:09 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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posted on
07/26/2023 5:02:02 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: AFB-XYZ; No name given
True!..........................Sarcasm doesn’t translate well into print..............
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posted on
07/26/2023 5:03:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: MtnClimber
looks like meat loaf’s III bat out of hell album
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posted on
07/26/2023 6:11:17 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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