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Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe
BBC ^
| 19 Jun, 2020
| Jonathan Amos
Posted on 06/20/2020 10:51:41 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Behold the hot, energetic Universe. A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays. The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos - instances where matter is being accelerated, heated and shredded.
Feasting black holes, exploding stars, and searingly hot gas.
The data comes from the eRosita instrument mounted on Spektr-RG. This orbiting telescope was launched in July last year and despatched to an observing position some 1.5 million km from Earth. Once commissioned and declared fully operational in December, it was left to slowly rotate and scan the depths of space.
eRosita's first all-sky data-set, represented in the image at the top of this page, was completed only last week. It records over a million sources of X-rays.
"That's actually pretty much the same number as had been detected in the whole history of X-ray astronomy going back 60 years. We've basically doubled the known sources in just six months," said Kirpal Nandra
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; haltonarp; science; stringtheory
To: MtnClimber
Photo is at the top of the linked article.
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posted on
06/20/2020 10:52:16 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
It looks like a potato that’s gone bad.
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posted on
06/20/2020 11:01:16 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
To: MtnClimber
I can’t breathe after seeing that.
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posted on
06/20/2020 11:01:50 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/20/2020 11:02:08 PM PDT
by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: MtnClimber
The extreme violence of the universe's rare anomalies is only matched by its utter boredom in the empty spaces between. Perhaps Q said it best:
It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross.
To: Auntie Mame
To: MtnClimber
Ahhh Geeze, universal warming. We’re all gonna’ die!
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posted on
06/20/2020 11:14:07 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: MtnClimber
Same universe viewed in the x-ray spectrum.
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posted on
06/20/2020 11:14:17 PM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/20/2020 11:24:38 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: Auntie Mame
Right in the center!
Lol.
Probably a little right and down from center.
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posted on
06/21/2020 3:18:48 AM PDT
by
CharleysPride
(Bring Luke Denman and Airan Berry home!)
To: MtnClimber
It’s way beyond my comprehension......
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/21/2020 4:31:05 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: MtnClimber
I can't breathe....
I'm always amazed at the scope and beauty of what God has wrought....and our growing, but still puny, efforts to grasp it.
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posted on
06/21/2020 4:34:15 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/21/2020 8:17:21 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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posted on
06/21/2020 9:30:57 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting Halton Arp dissertation on your link . . .
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posted on
06/21/2020 10:09:25 AM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: PIF
The activity running from top to bottom in the center must be due to the massive black hole at the center of the galaxy. As matter circles around the drain and heats up it gets so hot that some of it escapes through the axis of rotation squeezed by the magnetic field lines . From there it bursts outward at near light speed where the high vacuum it encounters gradually slows it down after traveling thousands of light years.
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posted on
06/21/2020 10:11:35 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: BraveMan
Thanks! I think you're the first to notice that in a long while. :^)
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posted on
06/21/2020 11:24:46 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/24/2020 4:26:56 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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