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First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images The Radio Galaxy PKS 0521-36

First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images The Radio Galaxy PKS 0521-36 STScI-1990-16
Oct 4, 1990

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the most detailed and highest resolution optical images of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera.

Hubble Space Telescope Probes a Galaxy with an Active Nucleus

Hubble Space Telescope Probes a Galaxy with an Active Nucleus STScI-1990-13
Oct 4, 1990

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented, detailed view of highly energetic events in the core of a galaxy 30 million light-years away. The observations are a first step in HST's search for super-massive black holes at the nuclei of active galaxies.