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The Chandra image (right) shows the inner region of NGC 6231 where red, green, and blue represent low, medium, and high-energy X-rays; the brightest X-ray emission is white. An infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey explorer is shown on the left. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of Valparaiso / M. Kuhn et al / WISE / JPL.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Observes Young Cluster NGC 6231

May 4, 2018 by News Staff

First discovered by Italian mathematician and priest Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654, NGC 6231 is a young star cluster located in the constellation...