By Sheetal Kumari | September 17, 2025
N79, a massive star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, reveals hot gas from young stars, helping astronomers study how stars like our Sun formed.
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NGC 2146 is a spiral galaxy whose dusty arm hides its center, while X-rays reveal double stars and gas expelled by supernovae and giant star winds.
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IC 348 is a star-forming region where interstellar material reflects starlight, and X-rays reveal young stars developing within the cluster.
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M83, a face-on spiral galaxy, offers a clear view of supernova explosions and their aftermath, captured by Chandra’s X-ray observations.
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M82 is a starburst galaxy where supernovas create expanding bubbles of multimillion-degree gas stretching millions of light-years beyond the galaxy’s disk, seen by Chandra.
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NGC 1068’s central black hole, twice the Milky Way’s mass, drives million-mph winds, lighting the galaxy’s core in X-rays, as seen by Chandra.
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NGC 346 is a young star cluster where massive stars emit powerful winds, intense radiation, and X-rays reveal a supernova remnant’s glowing debris.
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IC 1623 is two merging galaxies sparking star formation and possibly creating a supermassive black hole, with dramatic light emissions from the collision.
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Westerlund 1, the closest super star cluster, hosts thousands of X-ray-emitting stars, revealing intense star formation as Chandra and other telescopes study this stellar factory.
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