Image Credit: stsci.edu/hlsp/jwst-ero-team of Dr. Leisa Townsley
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has frequently looked at 30 Doradus over the lifetime of the mission, often under the direction of Dr. Leisa Townsley who passed away in the summer of 2022. Data is still being collected and analyzed, providing opportunities for scientists both now and in the future to learn more about star formation and its related processes.*
This composite image combines the X-ray data from Chandra observations of 30 Doradus with an infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that was released in the fall of 2022.
*arXiv report from the Townsley team, 2024.