New Chandra Image Is Eye Candy


	New Chandra Image Is Eye Candy

JohnWaterman

1-24-2008 1:15 PM

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1-24-2008 10:45 PM

mickfinn

Great stuff and thanks for the link

1-25-2008 6:24 PM

carrerinyes

Awesome!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2467abf5-74b0-477d-aa9b-593810cc9309/C02BE16B-8001-48E6-BA20-F6A74CFA52F5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/C015429B-C93D-47BA-860B-7B06BD15813C" alt="Chandra Image of Westerlund 2.  Image Credit:   NASA/CXC/Univ. de Liège/Y. Naze et al" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/">
This picture is too gorgeous not to share it.  A new Chandra X-ray telescope image shows a beautiful, dense region of massive stars in the Centaurus constellation.  It almost appears as though someone threw a handful of colored candies out into space</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/">this star cluster has been a mysterious region of our galaxy, filled with dust and gas that have obscured our vision of what lies inside.  But new X-ray observations with Chandra have revealed some of the hottest, brightest and most massive known stars, and this is now regarded as one of the most interesting star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/">
About 20,000 light years from Earth, Westerlund 2 is a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years.  An extremely massive double star system called WR20a is visible in the image,  the bright yellow point just below and to the right of the cluster's center</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2008/01/24/new-chandra-image-is-eye-candy/"><P>Download this image for your desktop <A href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/desktops_year.html?year=2008">here.</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C02BE16B-8001-48E6-BA20-F6A74CFA52F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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