By Neha Yadav
Published Jul 07, 2024

Hindustan Times
In Focus

Photo Credits: Instagram/nasahubble

NASA's 10 phenomenal views of space

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is known for observing and capturing splendid and jaw-dropping images of cosmos, space and galaxy. Let's take a look at some of them.

This mind-blowing image captured by NASA shows superheated gas and magnetic fields producing sparks of energy in the center of Earth's Milky Way galaxy.

This incredible composite image shows a star exploding in X-ray vision in the constellation Taurus.

This breathtaking image captured by NASA shows the remains of an exploded star called Cassiopeia A and its magnetic fields in X-ray.

This spectacular image by NASA shows the supernova remnant E0102, the debris of a massive star that exploded over 1,000 years ago.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured this captivating view of the Cat's Eye Nebula. It is found 3,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Draco.

This sparkly image taken by NASA shows the view of spiral galaxy NGC 1672, combined with different wavelengths of light at about 60 million light-years away from Earth.

This stunning image shared by NASA shows an O-type star RCW 120 which is an expanding bubble of hydrogen gas.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope, together combined X-ray and infrared light data to create this astounding image of 30 Doradus, the brightest star-forming region.

This magnificent and mesmerizing image shared by NASA shows the supernova remnant E0519 left behind after a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Here's a striking image of MACS J1149 shared by NASA which shows a group of merging galaxy clusters located 5 billion light-years from Earth.