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NASA’s James Webb Telescope’s Powers Get Boosted With X-Ray Vision

TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

Data from the 23-year-old Chandra X-ray Observatory add new hues to photos of the cosmos.

image: a mass of blue to represent deposits of superheated gas that could only be seen in X-ray light
NASA/Chandra Observatory

As images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope have been released to the public, people have reacted as if they’d seen a magic trick.

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