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The Chandra telescope has discovered 84 hypersoft X-ray sources in space.

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NASA announced that the Chandra telescope found 84 hypersoft X-ray sources, a new class of cosmic objects that behave differently from anything seen before. Two of these sources are in spiral galaxies, Andromeda and Pinwheel.

Source: NASA

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