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More Images: New Image from NASA's Webb and Chandra 'Pierces' Bullet Cluster
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X-ray and Near-infrared Images of the Bullet Cluster
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Near-infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image processing: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale
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Galaxy Clusters Defined
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This is the central region of the Bullet Cluster, which is made up of two massive galaxy clusters. The vast number of galaxies and foreground stars in the image were captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light. Glowing, hot X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory appear in pink. The blue represents the dark matter, which was precisely mapped by researchers with Webb’s detailed imaging. Normally, gas, dust, stars, and dark matter are combined into galaxies, even when they are gravitationally bound within larger groups known as galaxy clusters. The Bullet Cluster is unusual in that the intracluster gas and dark matter are separated, offering further evidence in support of dark matter.




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