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Cosmic pressure fronts mapped by Chandra
The collision of two giant clusters of galaxies has been imaged by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. For the first time, the pressure fronts in this system, which has been compared to a cosmic “weather system,” can be traced in detail. “We can compare this to an intergalactic cold front,” said Maxim Markevitch of the Harvard-Smithsonian…