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A Hard X-ray Look at M51
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About this work
Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light image of the Whirlpool galaxy (the spiral in the center of the image) and its companion galaxy, M51b (the bright greenish-white spot above the Whirlpool), taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Credit lineA Hard X-ray Look at M51. NASA/JPL, 2019-02-20. Public domain. ID: PIA23005.
