This image shows the temperature of gas in and around the two merging galaxy clusters based directly on X-ray data. The image highlights the hot "invisible" gas between the clusters heated by shock waves. The white color corresponds to regions of the highest temperature -- hotter than the surface of the Sun -- followed by red, orange, yellow and blue. Credit: ESA/ XMM-Newton/ Patrick Henry et al.

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