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The Cosmic Hand of Destruction | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Posted by horuskol 305 days ago in Science & Technology (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com)
OK, duh, it’s a nebula, a vast structure of gas several light years across and located about 17,000 light years away from Earth. Since this is a Chandra X-ray observatory image the gas must be terribly hot; only the most energetic events can give off X-rays. So what’s heating the gas?
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