Catching a Galactic Football
chandra_190 November 6th, 2000
Credit: NASA/UMD/A.Wilson et al.
Chandra's image shows a giant football-shaped cavity within X-ray emitting hot gas surrounding the galaxy Cygnus A. The cavity in the hot gas has been created by two powerful jets emitted from the central black hole region. The jets themselves terminate in radio and X-ray emitting "hot spots," some 300,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. Scientists believe that fast atomic particles and magnetic fields from the jets spill out into the region, providing pressure that continuously inflates the cavity.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2000/0216/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 190
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Cygnus A
- Credits
- NASA/UMD/A.Wilson et al.
- Release Date
- 2000-11-06
- Lightyears
- 700,000,000
- Redshift
- 700,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2000/0216/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra
- Instrument
- ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Pseudocolor
- Band
- X-ray
- Bandpass
- X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267
- Start Time
- 2000-05-21T03:13:30
- Integration Time
- 35000
- Dataset ID
- 360
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 299.8675312, 40.7336755
- Reference Dimension
- 1952.0, 1632.0
- Reference Pixel
- 977.0, 817.0
- Scale
- 2.07677e-05, 2.0767731e-05
- Rotation
- 0.73
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- 0216_xray.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2000/0216/0216_xray.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-01-19
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
