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Hot Gas in Galactic Center: Chandra Turns Up the Heat in the Milky Way Center (A 130 light year region of the center of the Milky Way: Located about 26,000 light years from Earth, the region contains a supermassive black hole, hot gas, and thousands of X-
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:35:08
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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Corona of the Sun during a Solar Eclipse
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- Date uploaded: 2008-05-29
- Tags: smithsonianinstitution, solar, eclipse, corona, solareclipse, éclipse, solaire, lune, moon, sonne, sun, soleil, astronomy, astronomie, espace, space, univers, universe, sky, ciel, nature, darkness, light, dark, full, smithsonianinstitutionarchives
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M82: Images From Space Telescopes Produce Stunning View of Starburst Galaxy
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:32:14
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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N49: Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:33:16
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51): A Classic Beauty (A spiral galaxy 31 million light years from Earth.)
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:32:06
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A Star's Death Comes to Life
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:31:29
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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X-ray Mosaic of Galactic Center: Chandra Takes In the Bright Lights, Big City of the Milky Way
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:30:24
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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Andromeda Galaxy (M31): The Heat Is On in Andromeda's Center
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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Abell 1689: A Galaxy Cluster Makes Its Mark (A galaxy cluster at a distance of about 2.3 billion light years from Earth.)
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:28:19
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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A nearby galaxy cluster about 65 million light years from Earth.
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:29:50
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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MACS J0025.4-1222: A Clash of Clusters Provides Another Clue to Dark Matter (A powerful collision of two galaxy clusters about 5.6 billion light years away.)
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:32:36
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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A young star cluster 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation Vela.
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:34:45
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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The remains of a massive star that exploded, perhaps being witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 386 A.D.
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:29:56
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth (A region of active star formation about 4,000 light years from Earth.)
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- Date taken: 2009-01-02 11:23:19
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-26
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Cosmic Heavyweights in Free-For-All: One of the most complex galaxy clusters, located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth.
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- Date taken: 2009-05-26 15:39:59
- Date uploaded: 2009-06-01
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The Antennae: A pair of colliding galaxies about 60 million light years from Earth.
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- Date taken: 2008-10-08 18:32:50
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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SNR G54.1+0.3 (A supernova remnant about 16,000 light years from Earth.)
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- Date taken: 2008-10-08 18:33:18
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A rapidly rotating neutron star in the Vela supernova remnant.
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:36:09
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A supernova remnant created from the death of a massive star about 2,000 years ago.
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:34:40
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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A cluster of galaxies about 2 billion light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.
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- Date taken: 2008-09-30 10:28:28
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-14
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