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NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Captures Spider Pulsars Shredding Companion Stars

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured spider pulsars, a group of dead stars, shredding companion stars within their reach. These are basically a special class of millisecond pulsars with winds of energetic particles that stream out and strip away their companion stars.

Using Chandra data, along with the Parkes and MeerKAT radio telescopes, astronomers discovered 18 millisecond pulsars in Omega Centauri, which is located approximately 17,700 light-years from Earth. Of those 18, there were 11 millisecond pulsars emitting X-rays, with 5 of those being spider pulsars concentrated near the center of Omega Centauri.

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Spider pulsars are typically separated from their companions by only about one to 14 times the distance between the Earth and Moon. This close proximity — cosmically speaking — causes the energetic particles from the pulsars to be particularly damaging to their companion stars,” said the team.

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Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Evil Eye Galaxy Located 17 Million Light-Years from Earth

NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the Evil Eye galaxy, also known as NGC 4826, located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. What stands out most is its bright yellow nucleus, which shines brightly amongst dark dust in brown and orange.

This relatively isolated spiral galaxy was first discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and then independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. Astronomers note that the inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy, while the the stellar population exhibits no measurable counter-rotation.

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First discovered in 1799, astronomers know this galaxy by its peculiar internal motion. The gas in the inner and outer regions move in opposite directions, which may be due to a recent galactic merger,” said NASA.

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NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter Captures Unusual View of Red Planet’s Horizon

NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this unusual view of the Red Planet’s horizon using its THEMIS camera from an altitude of around 250 miles (400 kilometers), or the same altitude at which the ISS orbits Earth.

It was challenging to capture because its Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) is not able pivot, while adjusting the angle of the camera requires changing the position of the entire spacecraft. This meant the team needed to rotate the orbiter almost 90° while making sure the Sun would still shine on the spacecraft’s solar panels, but not on sensitive equipment that could overheat.

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If there were astronauts in orbit over Mars, this is the perspective they would have. No Mars spacecraft has ever had this kind of view before,” said Jonathon Hill of Arizona State University, operations lead for Odyssey’s camera.

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Hubble Captures Massive Galaxy Cluster Abell 3192 That Curves Spacetime Around It

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Smith, H. Ebeling, D. Coe
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of galaxy cluster Abell 3192, suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, curving spacetime around it. This phenomenon is called a gravitational lens, where smaller galaxies behind the cluster can be observed being distorted into long, warped arcs around its edges.

In this image, we can see a cluster of galaxies, concentrated around two large elliptical galaxies, while the black background is bathed in smaller galaxies of all shapes and sizes. In the top left and bottom right, there are a few galaxies that appear notably distorted into curves by gravity. Abell 3192 was initially thought to comprise a single cluster of galaxies, concentrated at a single distance, but the cluster’s mass seemed to be densest at two distinct points instead of just one.

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It was subsequently shown that the original Abell cluster actually comprised two independent galaxy clusters — a foreground group around 2.3 billion light-years from Earth, and a further group at the greater distance of about 5.4 billion light-years from our planet,” said the ESA.

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ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Captures First Image, Shows Horsehead Nebula in New Light

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Euclid Space Telescope on July 1st, and today, it provides us with its first image: the Horsehead Nebula. Located 1,375 light-years from Earth, Horsehead is known for the dark cloud shaped like a horse’s head, part of the constellation Orion.

Unlike other telescopes, Euclid needed only one hour to capture this dazzling image of the Horsehead, showcasing the mission’s ability to quickly observe an unprecedented area of the sky in extreme detail. This new data of the stellar nursery will help scientists locate many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars.

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We are particularly interested in this region, because star formation is taking place in very special conditions. Gaia has revealed many new members, but we already see new candidate stars, brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in this Euclid image, so we hope that Euclid will give us a more complete picture,” said Eduardo Martin Guerrero de Escalante, Legacy Scientist for Euclid of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife.

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Hubble Captures More Vivid Image of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1385 Located 30 Million Light-Years Away

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a more vivid image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385 located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Featuring several arms mixed together and an overall oval shape, while its center glows brightly.

Bright pink patches and filaments of dark red dust can also be seen spread across the center. This more recent image boasts a pinkish-red and umber shades, whereas the former image was dominated by cool blues. This chromatic variation was made in order to represent the different number and type of filters used to collect the data used to make the respective images.

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It is understandable to be a bit confused as to how the same galaxy, imaged twice by the same telescope, could be represented so differently in two different images. The reason is that — like all powerful telescopes used by professional astronomers for scientific research — Hubble is equipped with a range of filters,” said the ESA.

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NASA’s IXPE Captures First Polarized X-Ray Image of Supernova Remnant SN 1006

NASA’s IXPE has captured the first polarized X-ray image of supernova remnant SN 1006, providing scientists’ with the data needed to better understand the relationship between magnetic fields and the flow of high-energy particles from exploding stars. SN 1006 is located approximately 6,500 light-years from Earth in the Lupus constellation and is all that remains after a massive explosion that occurred either when two white dwarfs merged.

Previously, X-ray observations of this supernova remnant offered the first evidence that they can radically accelerate electrons, and helped identify rapidly expanding nebulae around exploded stars as a birthplace for highly energetic cosmic rays. Since launching in 2021, IXPE has observed three supernova remnants: Cassiopeia A, Tycho, and SN 1006. What surprised scientists the most about SN 1006 was that it is more polarized than the other two supernova remnants, while all three show magnetic fields oriented such that they point outward from the center of the explosion.

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Close-proximity, X-ray-bright supernova remnants such as SN 1006 are ideally suited to IXPE measurements, given IXPE’s combination of X-ray polarization sensitivity with the capability to resolve the emission regions spatially. This integrated capability is essential to localizing cosmic-ray acceleration sites,” said Douglas Swartz, a Universities Space Research Association researcher at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

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NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Strange Frowning Face on Jupiter During 54th Close Flyby

NASA’s Juno mission captured a strange frowning face on Jupiter during its 54th close flyby on September 7th. This oddity was spotted in the gas giant’s far northern regions, called Jet N7, where turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator reside.

Jupiter’s terminator is basically the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. Scientists study the low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region to better understand the processes occurring in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

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Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 4,800 miles (about 7,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 69 degrees north,” said NASA.

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Hubble Captures Spanish Dancer Galaxy NGC 1566 Located 60 Million Light-Years Away

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti and the LEGUS team, R. Chandar
Located 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado is spiral galaxy NGC 1566, also known as the Spanish Dancer Galaxy. This Hubble image reveals that it does not have either a clearly present or a clearly absent bar-shaped structure at its galactic center.

We see the entire Spanish Dancer Galaxy centered and face-on, with two spiral arms that each make only a half-turn from start to finish, resembling the shape of a comma. On second glance, you’ll also notice lanes of dark dust that follow the arms into the center before splitting into many swirling fibers around the glowing galactic core. The bright pink regions along the arms are signs of new star formation.

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The galaxy owes its nickname to the vivid and dramatic swirling lines of its spiral arms, which could evoke the shapes and colors of a dancer’s moving form,” said the ESA Hubble team.

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Gemini South Telescope Captures Merging Spiral Galaxies, Previews Milky Way and Andromeda Collision

Astronomers used the Gemini South telescope to capture merging spiral galaxies that resemble cosmic cotton candy of sorts, or more specifically, NGC 7727, a galaxy nestled in the constellation of Aquarius about 90 million light-years from the Milky Way. The Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) mounted on the Gemini South telescope in Chile was used to observe the vast swirling bands of interstellar dust and gas around the merging cores of the progenitor galaxies.

What really stands out about NGC 7727 is its twin galactic nuclei, each of which features a supermassive black hole. Astronomers believe that the galaxy started out as a pair of spiral galaxies that became entangled in a celestial dance approximately 1-billion years ago. It spewed out stars and nebula before they were pulled back together due to the black holes’ gravity, resulting in the image you see here. Eventually, NGC 7727 will become an elliptical galaxy consisting of older stars and very little star formation, just like Messier 87.

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Because the galaxy is still reeling from the impact, most of the tendrils we see are ablaze with bright young stars and active stellar nurseries. In fact, about 23 objects found in this system are considered candidates for young globular clusters. These collections of stars often form in areas where star formation is higher than usual and are especially common in interacting galaxies as we see here,” said the NOIRLab.

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