X-ray Glow of the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit Gas (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

X-ray Glow of the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit Gas

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This image from the Japanese Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics shows the X-ray glow of the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit gas that fills the Perseus cluster. The white box indicates the area explored by the Suzaku X-ray telescope to detect chromium and manganese. The image is about two degrees wide, or four times the apparent width of a full moon.

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