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Old 22-02-2008, 06:49 PM
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Hi Guys,

well well wellll looks like the jet is deep within the image I think short burst exposure might reveal it even better.

Heres an inverted version. I'm not quite sure whether the jet has HA content?

Heres some info on M87:

M87 is an exceptional galaxy. Though of similar diameter to our own Milky Way galaxy, being spherical rather than just a thin disc in shape, it contains vastly more stars, several trillion in number. Deep exposure photographs show that it extends far beyond the 7 arc minutes shown in most photographs, perhaps to half a degree across. It is surrounded by a swarm of globular clusters. M87 also has a jet visible on short exposure photographs. This jet is an outflow of material ejected from the region of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The jet is the source of intense radio emission and thus M87 is termed a radio galaxy and has been given the name Virgo A.
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