terça-feira, 27 de agosto de 2013

Galaxy Crash Revealed First Time in X-Rays

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/15/photo-galaxy-crash-revealed-first-time-in-x-rays/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130816ngnw-galaxcra&utm_campaign=Content

A massive multimillion-degree cloud of gas has been revealed in X-ray data from Chandra that have been combined with optical data from the Very Large Telescope in this composite image. The hot gas cloud is likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy and a much larger galaxy. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Huntingdon Inst. for X-ray Astronomy/G.Garmire, Optical: ESO/VLT




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