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28 Oct 2018, 6:07 pm

If you could only see in a wavelength other than visible light, what would you choose?

I would either choose near infrared, x-ray, or neutral hydrogen!



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01 Nov 2018, 3:42 am

On this website you can look at space pictures in different wavelengths:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/

Like this galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its centre:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/ngc1068/

Or this supernova which was first recorded by the Chinese in 185 AD:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/rcw86/


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