James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

M82 is an irregular galaxy undergoing intense star formation because of a gravitational interaction with a neighboring galaxy hundreds of millions of years ago. Chandra X-rays (blue), supplemented by NuSTAR data, show towering superwinds of million-degree gas blowing thousands of light-years out of the galactic disk, with Hubble optical light (yellow, orange and white) showing the galaxy shape, and Webb and Spitzer detailing infrared dust emission (red). M82 was nicknamed the Cigar Galaxy mostly because of its edge-on angle to Earth, which makes its central disk look like an elongated, cigar-shaped oval with small optical telescopes. The galaxy illustrates how violent galactic "exhaust systems" can regulate a galaxy's growth by venting gas outwards.

Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/galaxies/

Image credit: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare, J. Major, and K. Arcand

Image description: M82, an irregular galaxy undergoing intense star formation. Here, thick towers of turbulent fuchsia gas burst from the top and bottom of a pale blue galactic disk.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

NGC 1385 is a barred spiral galaxy packed with regions where stars are actively forming. Chandra X-ray data (magenta) highlights stellar nurseries and X-ray binaries scattered along dusty spiral structures brought to life by Hubble optical (white and grey) and Webb infrared (orange and red) observations. Comparing multiwavelength data of barred spirals containing active star formation helps scientists map how local starbursts build up galactic mass over time.

NGC 1385’s home — the Fornax constellation — is not named after an animal or an ancient God, as are many of the other constellations. Fornax is simply the Latin word for a furnace. The constellation was named Fornax by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, a French astronomer who was born in 1713. Lacaiile named 14 of the 88 constellations that are still recognised today. He seems to have had a penchant for naming constellations after scientific instruments, including Atlia (the air pump), Norma (the ruler, or set square) and Telescopium (the telescope).

Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/galaxies/

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Famous for its broad central bulge and dark outer dust ring, galaxy M104 sits at a nearly edge-on tilt to Earth. Chandra X-rays (cyan and orange) isolate compact point sources and hot gas in the galaxy's sprawling halo, merged with Hubble optical light (warm white) and Webb infrared vision (purple-red dust lane). Studying M104 may help bridge the gap between spirals and ellipticals, helping astronomers better understand how a galaxy's giant outer cloud of stars grows and ages alongside its inner disk.

Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/galaxies/

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical:NASA/Hubble Heritage Team/AURA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

Image description: M104, nicknamed the Sombrero Galaxy. Like the hat it's named after, M104 has a wide, flat, round brim, shown here as a hazy violet ring viewed nearly on its edge. At the center of the brim-like ring is a cluster of golden specks surrounding a golden core.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Centaurus A is giant elliptical galaxy undergoing a dusty merger, featuring a powerful jet of particles blasting tens of thousands of light-years into space. Chandra’s X-rays (blue) showcase the high-energy jet, with additional X-rays from IXPE (orange), while Webb infrared (magenta) and optical light (amber and white) from the European Southern Observatory expose a dark, churning dust lane. As one of the closest active galaxies to Earth, Cen A allows astronomers to study the effects of supermassive black hole jets in extraordinary detail.

Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/galaxies/

Image credit: X-ray: (Chandra) NASA/CXC/SAO, X-ray (IXPE): NASA/MSFC; Optical: ESO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare, K. Arcand, and J. Major

Image description: a giant elliptical galaxy with a powerful jet bursting from its core. Here, a neon purple ellipse tips from our upper right down to our lower left. A hazy violet jet of particles shoots out of the white core, aimed at our upper left.

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In Leslie Wayne’s exhibition The Unintended Blues, large-scale paintings may a first read as photographs. Melting icebergs in the Arctic Circle, the island of Manhattan, harbor construction projects, and coastlines around the U.S. that are vulnerable to rising sea levels take center stage. The closer one approaches, however, the more fluid the imagery becomes, as some shapes and shorelines appear nearly abstract.

These latest works follow Wayne’s series titled This Land Is Your Land, in which trompe-l’œil paintings of airplane windows depict aerial views of the American West based on photos the artist snapped while in flight. For The Unintended Blues, she expands this idea beyond the frame and turns her attention to watery landscapes around the world.

“Artists are in a unique position to bring awareness to issues of great urgency like this by reaching the hearts and minds of viewers, not just with information but with the poetic force of their creativity,” Wayne says in a statement. “For this exhibition, I hope to achieve that by transporting viewers with paintings that portray the splendor of what we stand to lose by our inaction.”

Displayed out in the open and supported by an armature of metal posts to present two canvases back-to-back, the paintings become not only sculptural but environmental. Viewers circumnavigate the works, traveling to different locations and climates while experiencing a kind of everywhere-all-at-onceness. We’re reminded how melting ice sheets and rising sea levels aren’t a localized phenomenon; it’s happening everywhere. The United Nations refers the planet’s rising waters as a global crisis for the billion people who rely on coastlines for their livelihood.

The Unintended Blues is presented as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel’s 2026 River to River Festival and is on view through September 27 at the Arts Center at Governor’s Island. See more on Wayne’s Instagram.

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In the UK, top radio presenter Jo Whiley introduced her BBC Radio 2 evening show by playing I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 in tribute to Dolly Parton after her death was announced in the 7pm news headlines.

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WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump noemde countryicoon Dolly Parton dinsdagavond op Truth Social "een van de beste countryzangers - en ver daar voorbij". Uit eerbetoon zal de landsvlag in het gehele land een week lang halfstok worden gehangen, schrijft Trump, vanaf middernacht Nederlandse tijd.

Het overlijden van Parton (80) werd dinsdag bekendgemaakt door haar neef in een video op sociale media. Parton, die naar eigen zeggen nooit met pensioen wilde gaan, tourde al enige tijd niet meer.

Hoewel country geldt als een genre dat traditioneel veelal door conservatieve Amerikanen wordt beluisterd, wist Parton met haar persoonlijkheid, passie en muziek een zeer breed publiek aan te spreken. Zo ontpopte ze zich met haar progressieve uitingen onder meer tot icoon voor de lhbti- en queergemeenschap.