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Top 10 Chandra Pictures: Four Years of X-ray Imaging
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
02 September 2003
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8. M83
The image of M83 revealed an ethereal beauty, with a graceful spiral of neutron
stars and black holes around a blazing, starburst heart of multimillion-degree
gas.
The picture shows numerous point-like neutron star and black hole X-ray sources
scattered throughout the disk of this spiral galaxy. The bright nuclear region
of the galaxy glows prominently due to a burst of star formation that is estimated
to have begun about 20 million years ago in the galaxy's time frame.
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