This composite of the black-and-white optical, the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, and Chandra X-ray images, showed astronomers at the University of Massachusetts, Amhurst that an X-ray corona surrounds this spiral galaxy by separating individual X-ray sources from the diffuse corona. The corona is shown in the smallest box. Click to enlarge.

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