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English: This composite shows the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant across the spectrum: Gamma rays (magenta) from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; X-rays (blue, green) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory; visible light (yellow) from the Hubble Space Telescope; infrared (red) from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope; and radio (orange) from the Very Large Array near Socorro, N.M. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/Steward/O. Krause et al., and NRAO/AUI.
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Source NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays, url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/cosmic-rays-source.html
Author NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/Steward/O. Krause et al., and NRAO/AUI
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(Reusing this file)		 Images from NASA are usually free of copyright and are in the PUBLIC Domain.

The large magenta area contains the GeV gamma-ray source detected by the Fermi LAT.

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