Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/The Ohio State Univ/S. Lopez et al.; H-alpha and Optical: NSF/NOIRLab/AURA/KPNO/CTIO; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Spitzer/D. Dale et al; Full Field Optical: ESO/La Silla Observatory.

Data from Chandra show the effects of powerful winds launched from the center of a nearby galaxy. An amount of hot gas equivalent to about two million Earth masses blows away from the galaxy's center every year. This composite image of NGC 253 in the inset includes Chandra data (pink and white) showing that these winds blow to the upper right and lower left. This image also contains visible light data from Kitt Peak (cyan), emission from hydrogen (orange), and infrared data from Spitzer (red). From Earth's vantage point, NGC 253 appears nearly edge-on, seen in the wider-field optical image from the La Silla Observatory in Chile

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