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2019 May 1

The Cat’s Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Chandra X-ray Obs.; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl

Explanation: To some it looks like a cat’s eye. To others, perhaps like a giant cosmic conch shell. It is actually one of brightest and most highly detailed planetary nebula known, composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase near the end of life of a Sun-like star. This nebula’s dying central star may have produced the outer circular concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. The formation of the beautiful, complex-yet-symmetric inner structures, however, is not well understood. The featured image is a composite of a digitally sharpened Hubble Space Telescope image with X-ray light captured by the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The exquisite floating space statue spans over half a light-year across. Of course, gazing into this Cat’s Eye, humanity may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution … in about 5 billion years.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190501.html

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Our strong, intelligent, powerful, beautiful, both the popular and the underrated, fun, independent, heroic female characters of the Marvel Universe! Be it goddess, spy, soldier, student, general, inventor, CEO, sorcerer and more! Respect to every one of these characters and the many more I couldn’t fit onto here! Honorable mentions include Ayo, Liz Toomes, Frigga, Christine Palmer May Parker and Helen Cho.

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M87 on different scales and wavelengths

VLA radio image of the galaxy M87 in 1999. We are looking at complex flows of matter 200,000 light years across (that’s twice the size of our galaxy, the Milky Way). Let’s get closer.

X-ray image by Chandra, 2019 - we are looking at very energetic emission here! The close-up is about 25,000 light years across. Let’s look more closely…

Composite (UV, optical, infrared) image from the Hubble Space Telescope (2000). You can see the plasma jet the central Supermassive Black Hole ejects. The width of the image is 5000 light years.

Are you ready to see what’s causing all this mess?

This image is a fraction of a light year across (edited by Randall Munroe of XKCD). The supermassive black hole weighs 6.5 billion times our Sun!

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