Astronomers have combined data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble, and the Webb Space Telescope to create beautiful, color composite images.
The first image focuses on NGC 346, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The nearby galaxy is about 200,000 light-years from Earth and is a popular target for astronomers.
The included Chandra X-ray data reveals “young, hot, and massive stars that send powerful winds outward from their surfaces.” NGC 1672 | Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optical: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, and K. Arcand
The area shown in this image is a relatively small area of the entire Eagle Nebula, and the “Pillars of Creation” are only about four to five light-years wide. The entire Eagle Nebula is 70 by 55 light-years. In this composite image, Webb contributes the “dark columns of gas and dust shrouding the few remaining fledgling stars just being formed,” while Chandra’s X-ray data delivers the red and blue dots throughout the image. These are “young stars that give off copious amounts of X-rays,” per NASA.Rounding out the quartet is a stunning composite image of Messier 74. It’s a spiral galaxy located 32 million light-years from Earth.
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