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[Stu]

Wow... just wow...!!!

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/28

[Juramike]

Here is a carefully coordinated view of a zoom of SgrA* in near IR (Hubble) and X-ray (Chandra) wavelengths:



There are definite differences in the patterns between the two images.

The Chandra image was taken from the Chandra website, while the Hubble image was from a presentation by Susan Stolovy for the Galaxy Center image release.

The separate images (Spitzer [R], Hubble [Y], and Chanrda [B]) used to make the "Panel A" composite were loaded into Photoshop. Then the "Panel A" composite was loaded in to help coordinate everyone up. The high res image of SgrA* from the Chandra site was loaded in, and rotated (CCW ca. 45 degrees) and resized to fit the Chandra panel. The Hubble image was placed in the image, resized, and it's outer boundary used to set the crop for the Chandra hi-resolution image.

[BTW, the leftmost blue blob in Panel A doesn't show up in the other images, it turns out the Hubble nearIR image was the lowest common denominator. So the other images were cropped to fit the Hubble image. The blue blob is visible in the full Chandra Galaxy Center Region image - it is binary star system E1713.1-2843].

-Mike