File:15-137-CircinusX1-XRayLightRings-NeutronStar-Chandra-20150624.jpg

File
File history
File usage
Metadata

Original file ‎(3,600 × 3,600 pixels, file size: 5.86 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:05, 25 June 2015		3,600 × 3,600 (5.86 MB)	wikimediacommons>Huntster	Full resolution.

File usage

The following pages use this file on Justapedia (pages on other projects are not listed):

Neutron star

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Image title	Chandra data of Circinus X-1 reveal a set of four rings that appear as circles around the neutron star, providing a rare opportunity to determine the distance to an object on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy. These rings can be seen in the composite image of X-rays from Chandra (red, green, and blue) with a visible light image from the Digitized Sky Survey. These rings are light echoes, which are produced when a burst of X-rays from the star system ricochets off of clouds of dust between Circinus X-1 and Earth. By combining the X-rays with radio data, astronomers can use relatively simple geometry to pinpoint the location of the intervening clouds and then Circinus X-1.
Author	16 10:16:08
Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Headline	A system with a neutron star in orbit with a massive star about 30,700 light years from Earth.
Credit/Provider	X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/S.Heinz et al; Optical: DSS
Short title	X-ray Echoes Pinpoint Location of Distant Flaring Neutron Star
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	23 June 2015
Width	3,600 px
Height	3,600 px
Bits per component	0 1 0
Compression scheme	LZW
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	0.84269634025785 dpi
Vertical resolution	0.17476533333333 dpi
Data arrangement	chunky format
File change date and time	6 (Windows)
Exif version	2.21
Color space	sRGB
Date and time of digitizing	08:05, 10 October 2013
Date metadata was last modified	10:55, 24 June 2015
Rating (out of 5)	0
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh)
Unique ID of original document	BD55E111A2F65297D78A6FF6A1FBF4BF
Copyright status	Copyright status not set
Keywords	Circinus X-1
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
IIM version	4

File:15-137-CircinusX1-XRayLightRings-NeutronStar-Chandra-20150624.jpg

File history

File usage

Metadata

Navigation menu