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DescriptionMessier 106 composite.jpg	CXC: Composite image of NGC 4258 features X-rays from Chandra (blue), radio waves from the VLA (purple), optical data from Hubble (yellow and blue), and infrared with Spitzer (red). NGC 4258 is well known to astronomers for having "anomalous" arms that are not aligned with the plane of the galaxy, but rather intersect with it. Researchers are trying to understand how the giant black hole in the center of NGC 4258 is affecting the rest of the galaxy. NGC 4258, also known as Messier 106, is located about 23 million light years from Earth.
Date	Release date: 2 July 2014, Observation Date: Three pointings from 17 April 2000 to 29 May 2001, Observation Time: 4 hours
Source	Chandra X-ray Center/NASA
Author	X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI & R.Gendler; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA

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Image title	NGC 4258 is a spiral galaxy well known to astronomers for having two so-called anomalous arms that glow in X-ray, optical, and radio light. Rather than being aligned with the plane of the galaxy, they intersect with it. This composite image of NGC 4258 shows the galaxy in X-rays from Chandra (blue), radio waves from the VLA (purple), optical data from Hubble (yellow and blue), and infrared with Spitzer (red). Researchers are using all of these telescopes to better understand how the supermassive black hole is affecting the galaxy and its anomalous arms.
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Headline	A spiral galaxy, also known as M106, about 23 million light years from Earth.
Credit/Provider	X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
Short title	Galactic Pyrotechnics On Display
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	2 July 2014
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Compression scheme	LZW
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
File change date and time	18:15, 1 July 2014
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Color space	sRGB
Date metadata was last modified	06:40, 17 July 2014
Date and time of digitizing	05:42, 30 January 2013
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:1B6F717E952F68118C14E28E0F9E3085
Keywords	NGC 4258 (M106)
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
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