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This is a Chandra image of (the Bullet Cluster).
Abell 576 would have looked similar if the observer were in the plane of the sky (marked with an eye). The rectangular slice corresponds to the area viewed during the analysis of Abell 576, projected onto the Bullet Cluster.
The whitish bands that cross in the upper left are an artefact of the detector and are not real.