... over 25,000 light-years, comparable to the distance from the Sun to the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, a cosmic jet seen in X-rays blasts from the center of Centaurus A. Only 10 million light-years away, Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy - the ...
... 2012 September 08: CosmicRays at Voyager 1 . ... 2007 November 12: CosmicRays from Galactic Centers . ... 2006 August 14: CosmicRays . 2006 August 13: The Comet and the Galaxy . ...
... HEAO-3, the last in the series, was launched in 1979 and measured high energy cosmic-ray particles and gamma-rays . Tomorrow's picture: Fireball! ...
... Like a cosmic dynamo the pulsar powers the X-ray and optical emission from the nebula, accelerating charged particles to extreme energies to produce the jets and rings glowing in X-rays. ...
... 2002 January 16 . Abell 2597's Cosmic Cavities . Credit: B. McNamara ( Ohio U. at Athens ) et al., CXC , NASA . ... light-years away, Abell 2597 features hundreds of galaxies embedded in a cloud of multimillion degree gas which glows in x-rays ...