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More Images of Venus
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X-ray Image with Text
This version of Chandra's unsmoothed image of Venus
has a title, scale bar, and other information about
this observation.
(Credit: NASA/MPE/K.Dennerl et
al.)
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Venus X-ray/Optical Composite
This side-by-side comparison shows the subtle, though
significant, differences in the X-ray (green) and
optical (blue) emission from the planet Venus. Careful
inspection shows that the X-ray emission extends just
slightly farther than the optical.
(Credit: Xray:
NASA/CXC/MPE/K.Dennerl et al., Optical: Konrad
Dennerl)
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Smoothed X-ray Image
In this image, the X-ray emission from Venus, as seen
in its half-crescent phase, has been smoothed.
(Credit: NASA/CXC/MPE/K.Dennerl
et al.)
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Venus Optical Image
This optical image of Venus was taken with a 4-inch
Newtonian telescope by Konrad Dennerl, the lead author
of the paper on the Chandra observations of
Venus.
(Credit: Konrad Dennerl)
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Chandra X-ray Image with Scale
Bar
Scale bar = 23 arcsec
Credit: NASA/MPE/K.Dennerl et
al.
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