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Searching for visible-light counterparts to X-ray sources detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers used Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2005 to capture this close-up image (upper right) of stars and nebulae in one arm of spiral galaxy Caldwell 5 (IC 342). The ground-based image in the lower left, provided for context, was taken by the 4-meter Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
Credits: Ground-based image: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN, and NOAO/AURA/NSF; Hubble image: NASA, ESA, and P. Kaaret (University of Iowa); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
Image CreditGround-based image: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN, and NOAO/AURA/NSF; Hubble image: NASA, ESA, and P. Kaaret (University of Iowa); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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