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Official Twitter account of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Operated for NASA by Smithsonian (SAO). Verification: https://t.co/oQRMjHqCRI Legal: https://t.co/BUQNO29Sjg

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@chandraxray
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Chandra Observatory
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Tired from all that Thanksgiving cooking? Don't worry, many black holes can cook for themselves today! Black hole outbursts, in the form of jets, can trigger a series of events that ends up allowing these monsters to prepare their own meals & self-feed! #BlackHoleFriday ⚫ (1/2)
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@ThunderrockInno
ThunderrockInnovations
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I couldn’t decide between deck-builder or city-builder... so I made BOTH. A cozy but compelling roguelite city-builder where you place buildings from your deck to settle islands. Unlock, swap and combine technologies to twist core rules and discover powerful card combos.
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Chandra Observatory
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Before fall leaves, we're celebrating autumn all this week with seasonal offerings from space! We hope the glowing pockets of gas & dust in NGC 6334 remind you of leaves tossed around by the wind, but we know you're already thinking about untangling holiday lights, aren't you?👀
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Chandra Observatory
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IC 348 is a star-forming region located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy. The wispy structures that dominate this image are interstellar material that's reflecting light from stars. The fluffy-looking colored dots are developing young stars.✨
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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That fuzzy, purple smudge is a distant black hole growing at one of the fastest rates ever seen. It's located roughly 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, which means that we're seeing it as it was just ~920 million years after the universe began. More: https://t.co/7633y46GG0
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth. Some of the stars found here shine with the brightness of almost one million Suns! This new image combines X-ray light from Chandra, optical light from @NASAHubble, and infrared light from @NASAWebb.
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@NASAHubble
Hubble
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NGC 346 is homebase for thousands of newborn stars! 🌟 The cluster’s most massive stars produce powerful winds and radiation. In this image, Hubble's visible & ultraviolet observations are combined with X-ray data from @chandraxray. Find more: https://t.co/Nf6BUbQj6L
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Chandra Observatory
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The star that exploded to become the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant appears to have undergone a dramatic event right before its demise. New evidence from Chandra indicates that the star's interior was violently rearranged just hours before the explosion: https://t.co/oRUQuulAaX
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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X-ray & radio light go "hand in hand" in this new image of MSH 15-52. Nicknamed "the hand of god" in popular culture, new data are providing us with a fresh view of this exploded star, its environment, and its peculiar properties. More: https://t.co/kgGic1J3ml 🤝
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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The "ink-redible" Squid Galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth. This view of the Squid, roughly 29,000 light-years across, combines different types of light captured by NASA's Chandra, @NASAHubble, @NASAWebb, and @TheNRAO's Very Large Array.🦑
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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M82 is a so-called "starburst galaxy" — a galaxy where stars are forming at rates 10s to 100s of times higher than in normal galaxies like our Milky Way. This image of M82, roughly 27,000 light-years across, combines observations from @NASA's Chandra and @NASAHubble.
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@NASA
NASA
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A quick midnight snack @NASAHubble and @ChandraXray caught a black hole having a feast about 450 million light-years away. Data points to it being an intermediate-mass black hole, which are harder to spot than supermassive black holes. https://t.co/2Ekenvgd3d
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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NASA's Chandra and Hubble have teamed up to identify a rare type of black hole eating a star. When it comes to black holes, Chandra & @NASAHubble are like peanut butter and jelly — even better when they're together! More at: https://t.co/4l6eOWPtAE
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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What you're seeing is a 98-light-year-wide chunk of star factory. This new image of N79, a giant region of star formation located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, combines observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and @NASAWebb .✨
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Chandra Observatory
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A star is bombarding a baby planet with X-rays, shrinking it from the size of Jupiter to a small, barren world, according to a new Chandra study. Scientists estimate the planet is losing a mass equivalent to a full Earth's atmosphere about every 200 years. https://t.co/Qs3xtxlvwi
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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To infinity and beyond! Scientists using NASA's Chandra & Webb have discovered an oddly-shaped galaxy resembling the infinity symbol ♾️ that may contain the first newborn supermassive black hole ever spotted. The buzz: https://t.co/ufi0gNUXWn
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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The Bullet Cluster is iconic, having provided the first direct proof of dark matter with NASA's Chandra, Hubble, and ground-based telescopes back in 2006. This spectacular new image combines Chandra & Webb Telescope data — helping us learn more about dark matter than ever before.
@NASAWebb
NASA Webb Telescope
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Hello darkness my old friend… What you are (not) seeing, highlighted in blue, is dark matter. Webb was used to precisely map out the dark matter that is part of the makeup of two colliding galaxy clusters. https://t.co/Qxb3O8jOuP
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Chandra Observatory
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This new image shows the Andromeda Galaxy in 5 different types of light — X-ray, UV, optical, infrared, and radio. Andromeda, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. https://t.co/EdOhaXhGHb
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@chandraxray
Chandra Observatory
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Today Chandra is studying a not so itsy bitsy spider that's making big waves. Located about 3,000 light-years from Earth, the Red Spider Nebula is home to one of the hottest stars known. The star produces powerful stellar winds, generating waves about 100 billion kilometers high.
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@NASAUniverse
NASA Universe
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Is it bad luck if a black hole crosses your path? #FridayThe13th It depends on how close you get! Maybe you’ll safely fly by, like in this simulation …
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