What it is: A collection of "red, white and blue" images to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States.
Where it is: Between 11,000 light-years and 19 million light-years from Earth
When it was shared: June 30, 2026.
NASA has marked the 250th birthday of the U.S. with a striking new collection of cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory, presenting four deep-space objects in red, white and blue.
The image set combines X-ray data from Chandra — which has been orbiting Earth since 1999 — with observations from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (JWST), as well as multiple ground-based observatories. Together, the images showcase some of the universe’s most dramatic environments, from the remains of an exploded star to a massive galaxy cluster shaped by dark matter — ...
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