#multiwavelengthastronomy

NASA's Chandra Adds X-ray Vision to Webb Images - Carina Nebula Composite by James Webb Space Telescope These new versions of Webb’s first images combine its infrared data with X-rays collected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, underscoring how the power of any of these telescopes is only enhanced when joined with others. Chandra’s data of the “Cosmic Cliffs” (pink) reveals over a dozen individual X-ray sources. These are mostly stars located in the outer region of a star cluster in the Carina Nebula with ages between 1 and 2 million years old, which is very young in stellar terms. Young stars are much brighter in X-rays than old stars, making X-ray studies an ideal way to distinguish stars in the Carina Nebula from the many stars of different ages from our Milky Way galaxy along our line of sight to the nebula. The diffuse X-ray emission in the top half of the image likely comes from hot gas from the three hottest, most massive stars located in the star cluster outside the field of view of the Webb image. The Webb image uses the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue. Full set of images and information: chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/chandrawebb/ Image credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. Observ. Munich/T. Preibisch et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI Image description: An image of the Carina Nebula, which resembles a rust brown mountain range backed by a hazy blue night sky. A curtain of dust and gas in the nebula occupies the bottom half of the image. The blue sky-like area above is streaked with vertical bands of haze which rise from the nebula below. Pale clouds of pink show hot gas that was blown away from massive stars. A starfield of gleaming pink and white specks blankets the entire image. Three long diffraction spikes entering the image at our upper right hint at the presence of a bright star just out of view. https://flic.kr/p/2nQQYHh