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Happy Fourth Of July! Here’s A Galaxy In Red, White And Blue
Image of NGC 4258 (M106), a spiral galaxy in the Milky Way. This is a composite image made up of X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Karl Jansky Very Large Array (purple), optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow) and infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (red). Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
We space people are pretty lucky, because we’re used to seeing rockets go up and checking out galactic fireworks such as what you see here in NGC 4258 (M106). In time for Independence Day, NASA has released this beautiful new image showing a galaxy where they have just found shock waves arising from activity from the object’s supermassive black hole.
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