{"id":17285,"date":"2009-08-23T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=17285"},"modified":"2009-09-06T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T14:16:48","slug":"heres-looking-at-you-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/heres-looking-at-you-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Looking At You, Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was the 10th anniversary of the first deep space  pictures taken by NASA&#8217;s orbiting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory\" target=\"_blank\">Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a>, and the  space agency celebrated by &#8230; well, taking another picture.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cat\u0432\u0402\u2122s Eye Nebula. Photo: NASA.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/aug21-12-1.jpg?resize=333%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cat\u0432\u0402\u2122s Eye Nebula. Photo: NASA.\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat\u0432\u0402\u2122s Eye Nebula. Photo: NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actually, what NASA did was take two pictures &#8212; one with Chandra, and one with the Hubble Space Telescope &#8212; and merge them together to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1450.html\" target=\"_blank\">this stunning image<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat%27s_Eye_Nebula\" target=\"_blank\">Cat&#8217;s Eye Nebula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra&#8217;s claim to fame is that its mirrors are 100 times more sensitive to X-ray emissions than previous telescopes. That&#8217;s opened up the galaxy in a whole new way to scientists pursuing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-ray_astronomy\" target=\"_blank\">X-ray astronomy<\/a>,  which isn&#8217;t effective from Earth&#8217;s surface because the planet&#8217;s atmosphere  absorbs most X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>For example, according to NASA, in this image of the Cat&#8217;s Eye Nebula, &#8220;[t]he intensity of the X-ray emission is correlated to the brightness of the orange coloring. The intensity of X-rays from the central star was unexpected, and this is the first time astronomers have seen such emissions from the central star of a planetary nebula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chandra has already beaten original estimates of its useful life, which were initially 5 years, then 10, and now stand at 15. The next major X-ray observatory, a joint effort of NASA and the European and Japanese space agencies, won&#8217;t be launched until 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was the 10th anniversary of the first deep space pictures taken by NASA&#8217;s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the space agency celebrated by &#8230; well, taking another picture. Actually, what NASA did was take two pictures &#8212; one with Chandra, and one with the Hubble Space Telescope &#8212; and merge them together to &#8230; <a title=\"Here&#8217;s Looking At You, Kid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/heres-looking-at-you-kid\/\" aria-label=\"More on Here&#8217;s Looking At You, Kid\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1549,1548,646,1476],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}