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Galactic heart from Chandra and MeerKAT

Galactic heart from Chandra and MeerKAT
Galactic heart from Chandra and MeerKAT This mind-bending image shows superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Made using a giant mosaic of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, it shows X-rays from Chandra in orange, green, blue and purple, depending on their energies, and radio data from MeerKAT in lilac and gray. X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT