Mysterious Cosmic Objects Erupting in X-rays Discovered
chandra_641 October 19th, 2016
Credit: NASA/CXC/UA/J.Irwin et al.
Astronomers have found a pair of extraordinary objects that dramatically burst in X-rays. This discovery, obtained with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, may represent a new class of explosive events. This image shows the location of one of these objects (box) in the NGC 5128 galaxy where low, medium, and high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra are colored red, green, and blue. The other source was found in the elliptical galaxy called NGC 4636.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/ngc5128/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 641
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.2 C.5.4.8
- Subject Name
- NGC 5128
- Credits
- NASA/CXC/UA/J.Irwin et al.
- Release Date
- 2016-10-19
- Lightyears
- 12,000,000
- Redshift
- 12,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/ngc5128/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Chandra, Chandra
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACIS, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- X-ray, X-ray, X-ray
- Bandpass
- Low X-ray, Medium X-ray, High X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 1.65, 0.99, 0.71
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 201.3649290, -43.0188596
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 7.75957e-05, 7.7595725e-05
- Rotation
- 0.01
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- ngc5128.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/ngc5128/ngc5128.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-10-19T13:21:06-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
