Chandra Digest, September 20, Zwicky 8338

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** Zwicky 8338: NASA's Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster That Crosses the Streams

A galaxy cluster located nearly 700 million light-years from Earth.

Read the article and rate the image at:

https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/z8338/

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For all practical purposes, stars traveling across space never smash into each other. The ratio between a starlike sun's diameter and its distance to the next neighboring star is about 1:10 million. Galaxies do collide though.

https://chandra.si.edu/press/24_releases/press_090924.html

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Messier 106 (M106), also known as NGC 4258, is a spiral galaxy – like our own Milky Way -- located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It lies at a distance of roughly 23 million light-years and spans some 135,000 light-years in diameter.

https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/902

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