Young "Sun" Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA's Chandra

This image contains the first “astrosphere,” or wind-blown bubble, that astronomers have captured surrounding a star that is a younger version of our Sun.

https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/astrosphere/

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/John Hopkins Univ./C.M. Lisse et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STIS; Optical: NSF/NoirLab/CTIO/DECaPS2; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

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