M106 Galactic Pyrotechnics Enhanced
by Weston Westmoreland
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M106 Galactic Pyrotechnics Enhanced
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Weston Westmoreland
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M106, Galactic Pyrotechnics on Display, Enhanced.
This galactic fireworks display is taking place in M106 (also known as NGC 4258), a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. This peculiarity of this galaxy are the two spiral arms that glow in X-ray, optical, and radio light, and are not aligned with the plane of the galaxy.
A new study of these anomalous arms shows that the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy is probably sending shock waves and heating large amounts of gas.
The Chandra X-ray image reveals huge bubbles of hot gas above and below the plane of the galaxy. These bubbles indicate that much of the gas that was originally in the disk of the galaxy has been heated to millions of degrees and ejected into the outer regions by the jets from the black hole.
Original image and text by NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI/NSF/NRAO/VLA. Further image enhancements and post processing by Weston Westmoreland.
More enhanced NASA/Hubble images one copy-paste away at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/astronomy
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July 6th, 2019
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