鷹狀星云

This penetrating view of the central region of the Eagle Nebula from Nasa's Chandra X-ray observatory reveals the incredible amount of star formation inside the iconic 'Pillars of Creation'. Most of the bright X-ray sources are young stars.

這張有點透視效果的圖是從美國宇航局的錢德拉X射線天文臺獲得的鷹狀星云的中心地區(qū)，它揭示出傳說中的“創(chuàng)作之柱”里包含著數(shù)量驚人的恒星。大部分明亮的X射線都源自新生的恒星。

仙后座A超新星殘骸

This stunning picture of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is a composite of images taken by three of NASA's Great Observatories. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are coloured red; optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are yellow; and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are green and blue. Comparing the infrared and X-ray images could reveal how relatively cool dust grains coexist with superhot gas.

這張超新星仙后座A殘骸的照片簡直絕了，它是美國宇航局三家大天文臺合作的作品。源自斯皮策太空望遠鏡的紅外線顯示的是紅色；哈勃望遠鏡獲取的可見光部分顯示為黃色；錢德拉X射線天文臺的X射線是綠色和藍色的。比一比紅外線和X射線的部分就能看出來相對低溫的塵埃顆粒和超高溫的氣體是如何共存的。

RCW 86 超新星殘骸

This image shows a part of the circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86. It is the remains of an exploded star, which may have been observed on Earth in 185AD by Chinese astronomers. A team of astronomers said it helped them gain new insight into how the remnants act as the Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators.

這張照片顯示的是環(huán)形超新星殘骸的一部分，名叫RCW86。這是一顆已經爆炸的恒星的殘骸，這顆星可能早在公元185年就被中國的天文學家觀測到過。一組天文學家們說它幫助他們從新的角度理解了這些殘骸是怎樣作為銀河系高效的粒子加速器運行的。

Cas A 星體殘骸

Cas A is the remnant of a star that exploded about 300 years ago in the constellation Cassiopeia. The X-ray image shows an expanding shell of hot gas produced by the explosion. This gaseous shell is about 10 light years in diameter and has a temperature of about 50 million degrees.

Cas A 是300年前在仙后座星群中爆炸的一顆恒星的殘骸。這張X射線的照片展示了爆炸后產生的氣體膨脹的外殼。這個氣體的外殼直徑有10光年，溫度可以達到5000萬度。

M82星系恒星

In this beautiful multiwavelength view of the starburst galaxy M82, optical light from stars, pictured in yellow-green, reveals the disk of an apparently normal galaxy. Another observation designed to image 10,000 degree Celsius hydrogen gas in orange reveals a startlingly different picture with matter blasting out of the galaxy.

這張美麗的多波段的圖片拍攝的是銀河系M82的星光，恒星們發(fā)出的可見光在照片顯示為黃綠色，讓我們看到了一個很普通的銀河系星盤。另一個天文臺用橙色描繪出10萬度高溫的氫氣又顯示出銀河系物質噴發(fā)時令人驚奇的不同。

蟹狀星云

In brilliant blue, this is the pulsar wind nebula of the Crab Nebula in the constellation of Taurus. Energetic electrons and positrons (antielectrons) move out from an inner X-ray ring, which marks a shockwave between different forms of matter, to produce an extended X-ray glow.

這個絢麗的藍色是金牛座星系中蟹狀星云的脈沖風星云。高能電子和正電子從一個內部的X射線環(huán)中向外運動，在不同形式的物質中標記出了一個沖擊波，產生了一個膨脹的X射線光。

銀河系的中心

This image was produced by combining a dozen Chandra observations made of a 130-light-year region in the center of the Milky Way. The coloured spots represent X-ray sources due to neutron stars, black holes, white dwarfs, foreground stars and background galaxies. The spectrum of the diffuse X-ray glow in the direction of the disk of the galaxy is consistent with a hot gas cloud.

這張照片是多張錢德拉天文臺的照片合成的，顯示的是130光年遠的銀河系的中心部分。五顏六色的點代表由中子星、黑洞、白矮星、前景中的恒星和背景星系發(fā)出的X射線。

美杜莎的長發(fā)

Located above the center of the Medusa galaxy, the 'hair' - made of snakes in the Greek myth - is a tidal tail formed by a collision between galaxies. The bright X-ray source found towards the left side of Medusa's hair is a black hole.

坐落在美杜莎星云中間的水母星云（英文直譯為“長發(fā)星云”）——在希臘神話中是毒蛇來的——是由星系碰撞形成的波浪尾巴。明亮的X射線其實是美杜莎頭發(fā)左側的一個黑洞形成的。

星系碰撞

A new look at Stephan's Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located 280 million light years from Earth. One galaxy is passing through a core of four other galaxies. The curved, light blue ridge running down the center of the image shows X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

史蒂芬五重奏的新樣子，這是一個大約130年前坐落在距離地球2億8千萬光年遠的星系的組合。一個星系穿過了另外四個星系的中心（小編：星際臺球咩~~）。圖中那彎彎曲曲藍色山脊一樣穿過圖片中心的就是錢德拉X射線天文臺拍到的X射線。