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M33 X-7 Animations
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Images of M33 X-7
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This sequence begins with a wide-field optical image from Kitt Peak of
M33, a spiral galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth, and then
zooms into a view from the Gemini telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Next,
the view zooms into an even smaller field, from the Hubble Space
Telescope, that includes M33 X-7, the most massive known black hole to
be formed from the collapse of a star. The final image is a composite
of the region around M33 X-7 that contains both the Chandra and Hubble
data.
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(Credit: Kitt Peak: NOAO/AURA/NSF/T.A.Rector; Gemini: AURA/Gemini Obs./SDSU/J.Orosz et al.; HST: NASA/STScI/SDSU/J.Orosz et al.;
Chandra: NASA/CXC/CfA/P.Plucinsky et al.)
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(October 17, 2007)
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