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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 22:00:25 UTC Corey S Powell

Everything in this image of the Eagle Nebula is invisible to the human eye.
JWST shows the infrared glow of warm gas & dust. Chandra shows x-rays blasting from active young stars. Our technology brings the invisible universe into view.
https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/chandrawebb2/ #perspective #nature
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1. Messier 16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, is a famous region of the sky often referred to as the “Pillars of Creation.” The Webb image shows the dark columns of gas and dust shrouding the few remaining fledgling stars just being formed. The Chandra sources, which look like dots, are young stars that give off copious amounts of X-rays. (X-ray: red, blue; infrared: red, green, blue)
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/437/204/578/594/636/original/9b6dffb13b8064ba.jpg
2. Chandra :: Photo Album :: Chandra and Webb :: May 23, 2023
  
  Information about the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched on July 23, 1999, its mission and goals, and the people who built it.
- Robert McNees repeated this.
- Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 22:00:25 UTC Corey S Powell
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  Thought for the weekend:
  Our eyes are narrowly adapted to conditions on Earth. To see reality as it truly is, we have to use instruments that go far beyond the limits of human vision.
  These images merge visible light with infrared & x-rays to show a bigger universe:
  https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/nasas-chandra-webb-combine-for-arresting-views.html #NASA #Space
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  1. Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster. Each image combines Chandra's X-rays — a form of high-energy light — with infrared data from previously released Webb images, both of which are invisible to the unaided eye. Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (optical light) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared), plus the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton (X-ray) and the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope (optical) is also used. These cosmic wonders and details are made available by mapping the data to colors that humans can perceive.
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/437/219/536/495/370/original/43d8a530636cb035.jpg
  2. NASA's Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views
    
    from Lee Mohon
    
    Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster. Each image combines Chandra's X-rays — a form of high-energy light — with infrared data from previously released Webb images, both of which are invisible to the unaided eye.

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