NASA's Chandra Adds X-ray Vision to Webb Images - Carina Nebula X-ray Only
Chandra’s data of the “Cosmic Cliffs” (pink) reveals over a dozen individual X-ray sources. These are mostly stars located in the outer region of a star cluster in the Carina Nebula with ages between 1 and 2 million years old, which is very young in stellar terms. Young stars are much brighter in X-rays than old stars, making X-ray studies an ideal way to distinguish stars in the Carina Nebula from the many stars of different ages from our Milky Way galaxy along our line of sight to the nebula. The diffuse X-ray emission in the top half of the image likely comes from hot gas from the three hottest, most massive stars located in the star cluster outside the field of view of the Webb image (not pictured here).
View a composite of Webb + Chandra data here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/52404932634/in/ph...
Full set of images and information: chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/chandrawebb/
Image credits:
NASA/CXC/Univ. Observ. Munich/T. Preibisch et al.
NASA's Chandra Adds X-ray Vision to Webb Images - Carina Nebula X-ray Only
Chandra’s data of the “Cosmic Cliffs” (pink) reveals over a dozen individual X-ray sources. These are mostly stars located in the outer region of a star cluster in the Carina Nebula with ages between 1 and 2 million years old, which is very young in stellar terms. Young stars are much brighter in X-rays than old stars, making X-ray studies an ideal way to distinguish stars in the Carina Nebula from the many stars of different ages from our Milky Way galaxy along our line of sight to the nebula. The diffuse X-ray emission in the top half of the image likely comes from hot gas from the three hottest, most massive stars located in the star cluster outside the field of view of the Webb image (not pictured here).
View a composite of Webb + Chandra data here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/52404932634/in/ph...
Full set of images and information: chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/chandrawebb/
Image credits:
NASA/CXC/Univ. Observ. Munich/T. Preibisch et al.