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Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Braided Galactic Jet

Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Braided Galactic Jet STScI-1991-01
Jan 15, 1991

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of a ten thousand light-year long jet of plasma which has been ejected from the core of a galaxy 270 million light-years away. Observations made with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) reveal that the jet has an unusual braided structure, like a twisted pair of wires. "This is the first time that such a structure has been seen in an optical jet," says F. Duccio Macchetto, ESA's Principal Investigator on the FOC and Head of the Science Programs Division at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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.

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