Galactic Fountain Abell 2597 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Credit: ESO

Credit: ESO

in which NASA played a key role

The bright regions are where the shock wave is encountering relatively dense material or where the "bed sheet" ripples are viewed edge on

Maercker et al

The original image was taken on April 10

Galactic Fountain Abell 2597 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Credit: ESOComposite image of the Abell 2597 galaxy cluster showing the fountain like flow of gas powered by the supermassive black hole in the central galaxy. The yellow is ALMA data showing cold gas. The red is data from the MUSE instrument on ESOs Very Large Telescope showing the hot hydrogen gas in the same region. The blue purple is the extended hot, ionized gas as imaged by the Chandra X ray Observatory. The yellow ALMA data shows infalling material and