Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Jets from Radio Galaxy 3C296
Explanation:
Jets of streaming plasma [ http://www.plasmas.…] expelled by the central black hole [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of a massive elliptical galaxy [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] likely light up this composite image of 3C296 [ http://www.jb.man.a…]. The jets emanating from NGC 5532 [ http://www.mpa-garc…] and are nearly a million light years [ http://starchild.gs…] long. Exactly how the central black hole [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] expels the infalling matter is still unknown. After clearing the galaxy, however, the jets [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] inflate large radio bubbles that could glow for millions of years. If excited by a passing front, radio bubbles [ http://www.cv.nrao.…] can even light up again after a billion years. Visible light is depicted in the above image [ http://www.cv.nrao.…] in blue, while radio waves [ http://imagers.gsfc…] are shown in red. The radio map was created with the Very Large Array [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of radio telescopes [ http://csep10.phys.…].
Credit and Copyright:
AUI [ http://www.aui.edu/], NRAO [ http://www.nrao.edu/]
keyword:
jets
keyword:
3C296
keyword:
radio galaxies
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_what:
Atlas
facet_what:
Visible Light
facet_what:
Very Large Array
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap020226

Jets from Radio Galaxy 3C296
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