25 Images to Celebrate NASA's Chandra 25th Anniversary
chandra_838e July 22nd, 2024
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk
These images were released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Chandra. They represent the wide range of objects that the telescope has observed over its quarter century of observations. X-rays are an especially penetrating type of light that reveals extremely hot objects and very energetic physical processes. The images range from supernova remnants, like Cassiopeia A, to star-formation regions like the Orion Nebula, to the region at the center of the Milky Way. This montage also contains objects beyond our own Galaxy including other galaxies and galaxy clusters.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/25th/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 838e
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.10 B.5.1.2 B.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- Galactic Center
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk
- Release Date
- 2024-07-22
- Lightyears
- 26,000
- Redshift
- 26,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/25th/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, MeerKAT
- Instrument
- ACIS, -
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor, Purple
- Band
- X-ray, Radio
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- 1999-09-21-0241
- Integration Time
- 5599560
- Dataset ID
- 21581
- Notes
- 3
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 266.34791666666666, -29.033361111111113
- Reference Dimension
- 1788.00, 1006.00
- Reference Pixel
- 986.60853272582, 496.39318473118
- Scale
- -0.00073332621, 0.00073332621
- Rotation
- -0.05754882956
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- 25th_gcenter.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/25th/25th_gcenter.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-07-21T19:01:30-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
