
ALT Several bright stars shine in yellow, orange, and white hues. The stars have diffraction spikes, and two are particularly large just above and below the image's center. The background is full of dark brown dust and gas that covers most of the diagonal right half of the view, with pale blue gas glowing in the upper left section.

ALT A spiral galaxy appears pitched at an oblique angle, tilted from our upper left down to our lower right. Much of its face is angled toward us, making its spiral arms, composed of red and purple dots, easily identifiable. Several bright white dots ringed with neon purple speckle the galaxy. At the galaxyβs core, where the spiral arms converge, a large white and purple glow identified by Chandra provides evidence of a supermassive black hole.

ALT A close-in, face-on view of a spiral galaxy. It has two large arms that curve outward from the round, bright, central region to nearly the corners of the image. Channels of dark reddish dust that blocks light line the arms while bright pink, glowing points denote where stars are forming. Beyond its prominent spiral arms, the galaxyβs oval disk is generally cloudy in form and speckled with stars. A black background is visible behind it.



























