Buy this NGC 1569 space photo. High quality Chandra picture, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photo NGC 1569. Wide variety of sizes. NGC 1569 - Dwarf Galaxy 7 million light years from Earth. Chandra's 27-hour observation of this dwarf galaxy allowed scientists to measure for the first time the concentration of oxygen, neon, magnesium, and silicon that are present in the disk of the galaxy and in large hot gaseous bubbles that extend above and below the disk. These bubbles, produced by a burst of supernova events, are rushing out of the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. They contain oxygen equal to the oxygen contained in 3 million suns. July 23, 2002 Credits: NASA/CXC/UCSB/C.Martin et al. CXC operated for NASA by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |