NGC 4636 Animation
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NGC 4636 looks like a normal elliptical galaxy optically (blue image at beginning), but X-ray observations from Chandra (purple) show a galaxy wracked by a titanic explosion 3 million years ago. [Run time = 0:25 sec]
Animation: CXC/A.Hobart