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Tilt! What a beauty.

She’s a hot one. Chandra captures Tommy- I mean, Cas A, November 2006. From x-ray photographs, they discovered Cassiopeia A (”Cas A”) to be quite the ‘relativistic pinball machine’. From a novel map of the rate of acceleration of cosmic ray electrons in this fledgling supernova comes persuasive evidence that […]