What a view! It's late summer, after dark, and you're flat on your back in a sleeping bag watching the camp fire's last embers drift up to the heavens. Overhead a magnificent band of stars divides the night—it's the Milky Way.
Now, imagine that scene doubled in brightness and beauty.
No, that's not quite right.
Imagine an entire galaxy of stars spinning overhead. The galaxy's blue-white core of young stars is surrounded by yellow octopus-arms of older siblings. Off to one side a faint red column of gas meanders away from the starry whirlpool and turns in mid-sky toward … you.
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory have found a place in the Universe where the view may be like that.
---REMARKABLE!!