Topic: ESO 137-001: Two Tails to Tell

[sam]

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/eso137/

Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. A composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 3627 shows X-rays from Chandra in blue, optical emission in yellow and emission from hydrogen light -- known to astronomers as "H-alpha" -- in red. The optical and H-alpha data were obtained with the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope in Chile.

[Clive]

That's one of the topics I'm including in my next bulletin.  There's not a great deal of news around at the moment but that's not always such a bad thing.  That AAS meeting always spawns so many dodgy stories every year that it's good to have a break!   

[sam]

yeah, that AAS meeting eh! I might have to go to one at some point.

I'm sure I read a couple of interesting papers - but then again they are probably only interesting if your work on statistics and Monte Carlo simulations all day - so the average astronomy geek would probably fall asleep.