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More Images of Coma Cluster
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Chandra X-ray Image of Coma Cluster(Black & White)
(Credit: NASA/SAO/A.Vikhlinin et al.)
Central region of the composite exposure-corrected ACIS-I image of Coma in the 0.5 2 keV energy band. The narrow band running from the bottom left to the top right is the chip gap; it disappears in the smoothed image.
Scale: Image is 18.2 arcmin on a side.


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Chandra X-ray Image of Coma Cluster("Raw")
This version of the Chandra Coma image has been minimally processed.
(Credit: NASA/SAO/A.Vikhlinin et al.)
Scale: Image is 25 arcmin on a side.

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Optical Image of Coma Cluster
(Credit: Kitt Peak)

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Infrared Image of Coma Cluster
(Credit: ISO)

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Radio Image of Coma Cluster
(Credit: B.Deiss/Effelsberg)

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Rosat Image of Coma Cluster
(Credit: ROSAT/MPE/S. L. Snowden)
This Rosat image shows the merging of the larger, brighter central cluster and the fainter group of galaxies to the lower right. The field is 2.7 degrees wide by 2.5 degrees high.
Scale: Image is 164 x 150 arcmin on a side.

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Chandra X-ray Image with Scale Bar
Scale bar = 2 arcmin
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/A.Vikhlinin et al.


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