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It is a Xe surrounded by four oxygens. The oxygens are all double bonded to the Xe. It is this structure because that more favors the formal charge (every atom has a formal charge of 0) rather than having single bonds to all the oxygens. Atoms can't normally have 8 bonds like this but Xe is very large and is past the third row so can expand it's octet.
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