Chandra resolves NGC 6540’s mysterious X-ray flare into three separate sources

Chandra resolves NGC 6540’s mysterious X-ray flare into three separate sources
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have performed deep X-ray observations of a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6540. The new observational campaign, described June 1 on the preprint server arXiv, focused on disentangling the nature of a peculiar X-ray flare emitted by the cluster about two decades ago.
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