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This false color image shows the X-ray emitting plasma of a moderate cooling flow cluster called Abell 2626, obtained by the XMM-Newton Observatory. The image region shown above spans an area of roughly 1.5 Mpc by 1.5 Mpc at the cluster's estimated distance of 253 Mpc. The global morphology of Abell 2626 appears to be roughly azimuthally symmetric, but in the very central regions, there is evidence that relativistic radio plasma is interacting with the X-ray emitting thermal plasma. The interaction has been studied by Ka-Wah Wong and Craig Sarazin using both XMM-Newton and Chandra observations.