X-Ray Vision

Under the direction of NASA and MIT, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing
Explorer gathered
a decade’s worth of data on x-ray emissions from the Milky Way. In a
fascinating
time
lapse movie,
we are able to see the brightest x-ray sources in our galaxy! The
blinking lights indicate
changing x-ray emission intensities, thought to be caused by
variations in the amount of matter being crushed into the intense
gravity from neutron stars
and black
holes. Check out
space.com’s
article for more details. This incredible image sequence was taken by Cyril Cavadore