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More Images of Galactic Plane
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Smoothed X-ray Image
This Chandra image has been smoothed to enhance the
diffuse features. The soft (lower energy) X-ray point
sources are shown in red, and hard X-ray sources, as
well as hard X-ray diffuse emission, are displayed in
blue. Sources in purple are in-bewteen soft and
hard.
(Credit: NASA/GSFC/K.Ebisawa et
al.)
Scale: Image is 22.5 arcmin
per side.
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X-ray/Optical Composite
This composite image shows the Chandra observations
(inset) in relation to the familiar optical view of the
Milky Way. The recent Chandra data focus on a tiny
region in the constellation Scutum.
(Credit: X-ray: NASA/GSFC/K.
Ebisawa et al., Optical: University of Potsdam/A.
Mellinger)
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Chandra X-ray Image with Scale
Bar
Scale bar = 4 arcmin
(Credit: NASA/GSFC/K.Ebisawa et
al.)
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