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M87 and its relativistic jet, Okke_Dillen
M87 and its relativistic jet
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M87 and its relativistic jet

M87 and its relativistic jet, Okke_Dillen
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M87 and its relativistic jet

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I wanted to see if I could identify M87's relativistic jet in the wide field image of 4x3 degree I showed here earlier (see link) so, don't expect a Hubble image! No one would do this seriously but, I was curious if the resolution of the telescope would allow this. And it does! :-)

This is a 1:6 crop out of the widefield I recently captured (https://www.astrobin.com/fd8abi).

Look at M87's core, the tiny blue-ish elongated thing pointing at 2 o'clock. It's there! ;-)

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M87 and its relativistic jet, Okke_Dillen