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La galaxia espiral 0313-192 produce un chorro gigante emisor de radio

Composite images showing the galaxy 0313-192, the first spiral galaxy known to be producing a giant radio-emitting jet. At left is a wide view of 0313-192 and its surroundings, as seen with the Advanced Camera for Surveys of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in an image made...

Fecha
Jan 1, 2003
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
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Composite images showing the galaxy 0313-192, the first spiral galaxy known to be producing a giant radio-emitting jet. At left is a wide view of 0313-192 and its surroundings, as seen with the Advanced Camera for Surveys of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), in an image made in July 2002. The radio-emitting jet, as seen with the Very Large Array (VLA) at a wavelength of 20 centimeters, is overlaid, in red on the color image. The galaxy is seen edge-on. At right is a close-up of the HST image, with another red overlay from a higher-resolution, 3-centimeter VLA image, showing the inner portion of the jet. The prominent spiral galaxy in the upper right of the large-scale image is not related to 0313-192, nearly a billion light-years from Earth, but is more than 200 million light-years closer. The complex vertical structure of the absorbing dust and the blue star-forming regions past a warp in the dust lane confirm the spiral nature of the galaxy, even though it is seen edge-on.

Credits

NASA, W. Keel (University of Alabama), M. Ledlow (Gemini Observatory), F. Owen (NRAO) and AUI/NSF

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object Name0313-192
Object DescriptionRadio Galaxy
R.A. Position03h 15m 52.0s
Dec. Position-19° 6' 45.0"
ConstellationEridanus
Distance900 million light-years (300 megaparsecs)
DimensionsThe image is roughly 1.7 arcminutes (1.5 million light-years or 450 kiloparsecs) in width.
About The Data
Data DescriptionPrincipal Astronomers: W. Keel, (U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa), M. Ledlow (Gemini Obs.) and F. Owen (NRAO)
InstrumentHST>ACS/WFC, and VLA (Radio)>"A" Configuration
Exposure DatesJune 13-16, 2002, Exposure Time: 0.6 hours (HST), and November 5-7,1996, Exposure Time: 8.4 hours (VLA)
FiltersACS: F555W (V) and F775W (I) VLA: 1400-MHz (L-band), 8.4-Ghz

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