{"id":354378,"date":"2026-01-24T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=947783"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:02:31","slug":"nasas-chandra-releases-deep-cut-from-catalog-of-cosmic-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=354378","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Chandra Releases Deep Cut From Catalog of Cosmic Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> has a \u201cback catalog\u201d of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compendium has been developed: the Chandra Source Catalog<\/a> (CSC).<\/p>\n

The CSC contains the X-ray<\/a> data detected up to the end of 2020 by Chandra, the world\u2019s premier X-ray telescope and one of NASA\u2019s \u201cGreat Observatories.\u201d The latest version of the CSC, known as CSC 2.1, contains over 400,000 unique compact and extended sources and over 1.3 million individual detections in X-ray light.<\/p>\n

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This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It spans just about 60 light-years across, which is a veritable pinprick on the entire sky. The underlying image contains lower-, medium-, and higher-energy X-rays in red, green, and blue respectively. The annotations on the image show where Chandra has detected over 3,300 individual sources in this field of view over a 22-year timeframe.<\/div>\n
NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/N. Wolk<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n
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