Chandra Release - June 15, 2026

Visual Description: M87, Composite Image  


This astronomical composite image shows a highly detailed, textured jet erupting diagonally across a dark blue, starry background from the brilliant white-pink core of the galaxy M87 in the lower-left corner toward the upper-right. The jet is color-coded in shades of vibrant pink, magenta, and deep purple — representing combined data from the Chandra (X-ray), Hubble (optical), Webb (infrared), and VLA (radio) telescopes. The jet appears not as a smooth stream, but as a turbulent, twisting chain of highly defined, glowing knots and ripples that gradually widen and diffuse into wispy clouds at its outer edge.