Today our series with the NASA led us to talk about Enormous arms of hot gas discovered in the Coma cluster of galaxies.
Each time, the space observation reserves great surprises for its specialists
and for everyone in terms of increased discoveries and its immensity. In fact
it is always exciting to discover new phenomena. Today enormous arms of hot gas have
been discovered in the Coma cluster of galaxies by using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s
XMM-Newton.
According to NASA, these features, which span at least half a million light
years, provide insight into how the Coma cluster has grown through mergers of
smaller
groups and clusters of galaxies to become one of the largest structures in the universe held together by gravity.
‘’A new composite image, with Chandra data in pink and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey appearing in white and blue, features these spectacular arms. In this image, the Chandra data have been processed so extra detail can be seen.
The X-ray emission is from multimillion-degree gas and the optical data shows galaxies in the Coma Cluster, which contain only about one-sixth the mass in hot gas. Only the brightest X-ray emission is shown here, to emphasize the arms, but the hot gas is present over the entire field of view.
Researchers think that these arms were most likely formed when smaller galaxy clusters had their gas stripped away by the head wind created by the motion of the cluster through the hot gas, in much the same way that the headwind created by a roller coaster blows the hats off riders’’.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/J. Sanders et al; Optical: SDSS
groups and clusters of galaxies to become one of the largest structures in the universe held together by gravity.
‘’A new composite image, with Chandra data in pink and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey appearing in white and blue, features these spectacular arms. In this image, the Chandra data have been processed so extra detail can be seen.
The X-ray emission is from multimillion-degree gas and the optical data shows galaxies in the Coma Cluster, which contain only about one-sixth the mass in hot gas. Only the brightest X-ray emission is shown here, to emphasize the arms, but the hot gas is present over the entire field of view.
Researchers think that these arms were most likely formed when smaller galaxy clusters had their gas stripped away by the head wind created by the motion of the cluster through the hot gas, in much the same way that the headwind created by a roller coaster blows the hats off riders’’.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/J. Sanders et al; Optical: SDSS
