Jul2009 | Wk3 | xray posted by chris

from an extended shuttle mission to the ongoing Apollo stuff and a giant impact on Jupiter, it’s been a busy week in space. yesterday also marked the ten year anniversary of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, an orbiting telescope which sends back trippy multicolour images of supermassive black holes, gas jets, supernova shockwaves and other cosmic ephemera

_image: NGC 4649 / _credit: NASA/CXC/University of California Irvine/P.Humphrey


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