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Solar
System (13 listings)
Comets and planets |
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Normal
Stars & Star Clusters (46 listings)
Stellar coronas, clusters of stars and hot gas produced by outflow
from young stars. |
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White
Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulas (15 listings)
Hot gas associated with the final stages of evolution of Sun-like
stars, novas, and other white dwarfs in binary star systems. |
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Supernovas
& Supernova Remnants (73 listings)
X-ray sources produced by the violent explosions of massive stars.
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Neutron
Stars/X-ray Binaries (40 listings)
Hot, isolated neutron stars, rotation-powered pulsars, and neutron
stars accreting matter from a nearby companion star. |
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Black Holes (43 listings)
Stellar black holes, mid-mass black holes, and supermassive black holes. |
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Milky
Way Galaxy (18 listings)
Images related to the Galactic Center and other features of the structure
and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. |
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Normal
Galaxies & Starburst Galaxies (67 listings)
Images of spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies that show X-ray
sources associated with collapsed stars and star formation. |
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Quasars
& Active Galaxies (46 listings)
Galaxies with unusually energetic activity, including high-energy
jets, that is related to a central supermassive black hole. |
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Groups
& Clusters of Galaxies (51 listings)
Vast clouds of hot gas embedded with numerous galaxies. |
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Cosmology/Deep
Fields/X-ray Background (23 listings)
The sky as observed in X-rays is not dark, but gives off a glow thought
to be from many distant sources. Deep surveys with the Chandra X-ray
Observatory should reveal the cause of this glow. |
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Miscellaneous
(9 listings)
Objects that don't fit in the above categories, such as brown dwarfs
& gamma-ray bursts. |
