The observatory captured the 'purple death god' that the human eye could not see

The sky in front of you may not be as calm as you see it: The Chandra X-ray Observatory and numerous observatories around the Earth have just captured breathtaking images of cosmic grim reapers tearing through the sky in bright sunlight. magical purple light.

One of them is R Aquarii, seen in purple X-ray light with a red-orange near-infrared chamber surrounding it. It turns out to be a pair of stars locked in a death dance, consisting of a white dwarf ("zombie" of a recently deceased star) "sucking the blood" of its dying star companion - red giant star.

R Aquarii (left), Cassiopeia A (upper right) and Abell 2597 (lower right), objects that are emitting intense X-rays invisible to the human eye.

The white dwarf's devastating party sometimes causes a massive thermonuclear explosion, slinging matter into space and producing mesmerizing X-rays. This pair of stars is 650 light-years from Earth, and if your eyes could see the X-rays, you'd be alarmed to see them.

The second object, Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years away, is one of the well-studied objects in the Milky Way-containing galaxy.

However, through Chandra's new data, we clearly see the size of this "monster". It is the remnant of a supernova, which appeared after the star exploded blowing away a mass of material including 10,000 times more sulfur than all sulfur on Earth, 20,000 times more silicon, 70,000 times more iron and oxygen. 1 million times more than all the oxygen on our planet.

There are also other notable objects such as PSR B2224+65, a fast-flying dead star that spews out a massive X-ray tail; or Abell 2597, a star cluster 1 billion light-years away.

According to Science Alert, in addition to Chandra, scientists from NASA and many collaborating units have used many other observatories with state-of-the-art observational tools to produce the most complete image of the "gods of death" in the universe. this pillar.