Iconic James Webb Space Telescope images get X-ray vision boost

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals new features in iconic images.

The galaxy cluster SMACS J0723 as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.Perhaps the most sparkling of JWST's first images was of a galaxy cluster called, which is located 4.2 billion light-years away from Earth. Chandra's addition to these observations reveals gas heated to tens of millions of degrees on any scale.

Clusters like SMACS J0723 are host to thousands of galaxies and also vast reservoirs of superheated gas. Scientists estimate that the gas revealed by the JWST and Chandra partnership possesses a total mass of around 100 trillion times that of theThe Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

 

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