Monday 23 September 2013

This Mulit-Million Degree Gas Cloud Spans Half a Million Light Years




This Mulit-Million Degree Gas Cloud Spans Half a Million Light Years
Sep 23rd 2013, 17:30, by Jamie Condliffe
1911apsc9yuybpngThis glowing purple cloud may look stunning, but you wouldn’t want to get too close—because it’s actually a multi-million degree celsius gas cluster. This composite images, stitched together from data acquired by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, shows enormous arms of hot gas in the Coma cluster of galaxies. Spanning at least half [...]
    






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