Two Galaxies Masquerading as One
New detailed radio data from the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array VLA revealed that the large perpendicular extension of UGC 10288 halo blue is really a distant background galaxy with radio jets.
- Date
- 2013-11-14
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/NRAO/SDSS/NOAO/University of Manitoba
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Two Galaxies Masquerading as One" (2013-11-14). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/NRAO/SDSS/NOAO/University of Manitoba. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17556Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15991.
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