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[Please note: Additional observations of M31 that alter the conclusions in this release were announced on October 12, 2001. View the updated Chandra results on the Andromeda galaxy.

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Description	English: [Please note: Additional observations of M31 that alter the conclusions in this release were announced on October 12, 2001. View the updated Chandra results on the Andromeda galaxy.] This Chandra X-ray image shows the central portion of the Andromeda Galaxy. The blue dot in the center of the image is an unusually "cool" million degree X-ray source of unknown nature. Just above this cool source is a source (yellow) that is thought to be due to X-rays from matter swirling toward a supermassive black hole in the nucleus of the galaxy. This black hole contains the mass of 30 million suns. Numerous other X-ray sources are also apparent. Most of these are probably due to X-ray binary systems, in which a neutron star or black hole is in a close orbit around a normal star.
Date	14 January 2000 (upload date)
Source	M31: Chandra Images Heart of Andromeda Galaxy
Author	NASA/CXC/SAO
Other versions	PDF version JPG version TIFF version
Also Known As InfoField	Andromeda
Category InfoField	Normal Galaxies & Starburst Galaxies, Black Holes
Color Code InfoField	Cool blue dot - the rest is intensity
Constellation InfoField	Andromeda
Coordinates (J2000) InfoField	RA 00h 40m 27s
Distance Estimate InfoField	2.5 million light years
Observation Date(s) InfoField	October 13, 1999
Observation ID(s) InfoField	303
Observation Time InfoField	3 hours
Scale InfoField	Image is 1 arcmin across.
Instruments InfoField	ACIS

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Credit/Provider	NASA/CXC/SAO
Headline	Our nearest neighbor spiral galaxy at a distance of two million light years.
Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Short title	Chandra Images Heart of Andromeda Galaxy
Image title	This X-ray image shows the central portion of the Andromeda Galaxy. The blue dot in the center of the image is an unusual "cool" million degree X-ray source of unknown nature. Just above this cool source is a source (yellow) that is thought to be due to X-rays from matter swirling toward a supermassive black hole in the nucleus of the galaxy. This black hole contains the mass of 30 million suns. Numerous other X-ray sources are also apparent. Most of these are probably due to X-ray binary systems, in which a neutron star or black hole is in a close orbit around a normal star.
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	14 January 2000
Exif version	2.21
Image width	225 px
Image height	225 px
Color space	sRGB
Width	225 px
Height	225 px
Pixel composition	RGB
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Bits per component	8 8 8
Date metadata was last modified	11:19, 10 December 2010
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
Keywords	M31 Andromeda
IIM version	2

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