# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-06-06T19:32:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is aglow 🌌⁣
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This 2004 NASAChandraXRay image was produced by combining a dozen observations of a region 130 light-years across, in the center of the Milky Way. Chandra is a telescope designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regions of the universe. ⁣
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Here, the bright colors represent X-rays according to their energy level: low (red ) medium (green) and high (blue). Thanks to Chandra, astronomers have been able to identify thousands of point-like X-ray sources: 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.⁣
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The spectrum of the diffuse glow is consistent with a hot gas cloud that contains two components: 10-million-degree Celsius gas, and 100-million-degree gas. The diffuse X-rays appear to be the brightest part of a ridge of X-ray emission that stretches for several thousand light years along the disk of the galaxy. The extent of this ridge implies that the diffuse hot gas in this image is probably not being heated by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.⁣
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Credit: NASA/CXC/UCLA/MIT/M.Muno et al.⁣
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