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Even Superman's X-ray vision can't capture images like this six-month, all-sky shot of the cosmos
Jeff Spry
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Are some parts of the Universe expanding faster than others? Maaaaaaybe.
Phil Plait
Apr 9, 2020
An all-sky map showing what may be a change in the expansion rate of the Universe across the sky; faster in some places (red-yellow) and slower in others (purple-black). Credit: K. Migkas et al. 2020, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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eROSITA is now scanning the skies for X-rays
Phil Plait
Oct 23, 2019
eROSITA observation of the interacting galaxy clusters Abell 3391 and 3395. An image in three X-ray colors shows the clusters (left), and a different view highlights the gas connecting them (right).
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The most compact accreting binary X-ray millisecond pulsar ever!
Phil Plait
Jun 20, 2019
Artwork depicting a millisecond pulsar, sped up to phenomenal rotation rates by material it's eating from its companion star. Credit: NASA / GSFC SVS / Dana Berry
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A galaxy torn apart blasts out a six-million-degree scream
Phil Plait
May 29, 2019
The face-on spiral galaxy is lovely in optical light (blue) but has a very big secret in X-rays (purple). Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Huntingdon Inst. for X-ray Astronomy/G.Garmire, Optical: ESO/VLT
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Thanks to a huge black hole, this galaxy grew an extra pair of arms
Phil Plait
Sep 13, 2018
The inner disk of the spiral galaxy M 106 shows a pair of “anomalous arms”, actually gas heated by emission from the central black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team). Acknowledgmen
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WHAM! BULLSEYE! Galactic collision creates a ring of black holes and neutron stars
Phil Plait
Sep 10, 2018
The ring galaxy AM 0644-071, created when a small compact galaxy plowed through the middle of a spiral galaxy at least tens of millions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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The dead star, the doomed star, and their little friend
Phil Plait
May 8, 2018
Artwork depicting a black hole drawing material off its massive blue stellar companion. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Celestial fireworks pop off in a cosmic train wreck
Phil Plait
Jul 5, 2017
Arp 299 X-rays
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