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Great Observatory Views of Sombrero Galaxy
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This is a Great Observatory view of the famous Sombrero galaxy using the Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer telescopes. The first image shows the composite version, followed by the three separate observatory views. The Chandra X-ray image (blue) shows hot gas in the galaxy and point sources that
are a mixture of galaxy members and background objects. The Hubble optical
image (green) shows a bulge of starlight partially blocked by a rim of
dust. The Spitzer image (red) shows the rim of dust glowing in the infrared and a
central bulge of stars.
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(Credit: X-ray: NASA/UMass/Q.D.Wang et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/AURA/Hubble Heritage; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. AZ/R.Kennicutt/SINGS Team)
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