Tag Archive for 'SS 433'

Multi-wavelength image of Westerhout 50 (red - radio, green - optical, yellow - soft X-rays, magenta - medium energy X-rays, cyan - hard X-ray emission). The eastern lobe X-ray image highlights the XMM-Newton data (with the brightening at the edge of the field of view cropped here to highlight the source emission). The western lobe X-ray image shows only partial Chandra coverage of part of the nebula. Image credit: Safi-Harb et al., arXiv: 2207.00573.

Astronomers Find Evidence for Unusual Particle Acceleration in Manatee Nebula

Jul 5, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and its Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have...

SS 433 is a microquasar located in the constellation Aquila, some 15,000 light-years from Earth. Image credit: L. Calçada / ESO.

Astronomers Detect Highly Energetic Radiation from Microquasar

Oct 5, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers have detected gamma rays coming from the outermost regions of an unusual star system within our Milky Way Galaxy. The source is a microquasar...