NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.” It’s a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and countless black holes in the center, or heart, of the Milky Way. A radio telescope in South Africa also contributed to the image, for contrast. Astronomer Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst said on Friday that he spent a year working on this while stuck at home during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. “What we see in the picture is a violent or energetic ecosystem in our galaxy’s downtown,” Wang said in an email. “There are a lot of supernova remnants, black holes, and neutron stars there. Each X-ray dot or feature represents an energetic source, most of which are in the center.” This busy, high-energy galactic center is 26,000 light-years …
NASA Releases Extraordinary New Photo of Milky Way’s Bustling Cosmic ‘Downtown’
June 2, 2021
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