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… across space – has been captured in a gigantic radio galaxy. The dramatic scene was uncovered when astronomers … 100 million years of silence. Radio images revealed the galaxy locked in a messy, chaotic struggle between the black … to use more sensitive, high-resolution observations to zoom even deeper into the core of J1007+3540 and track how …
This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy.
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… into rings of light by the mass of another foreground galaxy. We have combined the strengths of machine learning … like the Dark Energy Survey in Chile, or detailed zoomed-in images from telescopes like Hubble, but only on … in 70 times compared to the large mosaic. Various huge galaxy clusters are visible in this image, as well as …
This image shows examples of gravitational lenses that Euclid captured in its first observations of the Deep Field areas.
ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre
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… are probably very rare, if not non-existent, in the Galaxy. About our speaker: Ian Crawford is a Professor of … Lecture Theatre at Burlington House, Piccadilly, online via Zoom, and streamed live on YouTube. Zoom links will be emailed 2 hours before the talk begins. …
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… light-years. Credit: Fraser Cowie Fig 2: Cowie2 - rotated_zoomed_out_snr Caption: Radio image from the MeerKAT … in the Universe ranging from stars through to galaxies and galaxy clusters, right up to the largest structures in the …
Radio image of the S-shaped precessing jet launched by the neutron star in Circinus X-1. Both Cir X-1 itself (centre of the image) and a background source have been subtracted from the image to make the S-shape clearer. The jets are fast, narrow flows of material outwards from Cir X-1. The size of the jets against the sky is the same apparent size as a penny viewed from 100 metres away, but their real size is greater than five light-years.
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… more often harnessed in citizen science projects such as Galaxy Zoo. Janet’s understanding that making people welcome and … active, whatever the project, has become part of the Zooniverse. Citizen scientists not only participate in the …
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