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DescriptionSome X-ray Landmarks.gif	English: An image taken from the ASM Video animation. This frame highlights the variety of objects seen in the video, including x-ray binaries, supernova remnants, and active galaxies. The rectangular image is a magnification of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, which has a high density of X-ray stars.
Date	25 February 1996
Source	Heasarc, NASA, The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Learning Center, RXTE Discoveries, ASM Video Reveals the Violent X-ray Sky, MIT Video showcases data from Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite
Author	Responsible NASA Official: Phil Newman Web Curator: Dr. James Lochner
Permission (Reusing this file)	Images produced by NASA are usually free of copyright [...]

The All-Sky Monitor (ASM) experiment on the RXTE satellite provides data on about 150 X-ray sources for the animation.

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