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DescriptionHot Gas in Galactic Center- Chandra Turns Up the Heat in the Milky Way Center (A 130 light year region of the center of the Milky Way- Located about 26,000 light years from Earth, the region contains (2940666559).jpg |
English: Description: This X-ray image was produced by combining a dozen Chandra observations made of the central region of the Milky Way. The colors represent low (red), medium (green) and high (blue) energy X-rays. Chandra's unique resolving power has allowed astronomers to identify thousands of point-like X-ray sources due to neutron stars, black holes, white dwarfs, foreground stars, and background galaxies. What remains is a diffuse X-ray glow extending from the upper left to the lower right, along the direction of the disk of the Galaxy. The Chandra data indicate that the diffuse glow is a mixture of 10-million-degree Celsius gas and 100-million-degree gas. Shock waves from supernova explosions are the most likely explanation for heating the 10-million degree gas, but how the 100-million-degree gas is heated is a mystery. Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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Author | Chandra X-ray Observatory Center |
Copyright holder | http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html |
Headline | A 130 light year region of the center of the Milky Way: Located about 26,000 light years from Earth, the region contains a supermassive black hole, hot gas, and thousands of X-ray sources. |
Credit/Provider | NASA/CXC/UCLA/MIT/M.Muno et al. |
Source | Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 13 June 2004 |
Width | 2,400 px |
Height | 2,400 px |
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Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 10:35, 30 September 2008 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Image width | 2,400 px |
Image height | 2,400 px |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 06:35, 30 September 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:39, 8 October 2008 |
Keywords | Hot Gas in Galactic Center: |
Contact information | cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
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IIM version | 2 |