Jet in M87 spied by the VLT
eso_m87-bluejet December 3rd, 2009
Credit: ESO
A jet of material shoots out of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy about 50 million light years away in the Virgo Cluster. The powerful jet shines in the energetic blue and ultraviolet range, while old, cool stars in the galaxy proper emit less energetic reddish light. A supermassive black hole at M87's centre is the likely culprit for generating the plume that extends some 5,000 light years from the galactic nucleus.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/m87-bluejet/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- m87-bluejet
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4 C.5.2.1 C.5.3.2
- Subject Name
- Messier 87
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2009-12-03T23:19:45
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/m87-bluejet/
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- Observation
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- Bandpass
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- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 5776.0, 3780.0
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- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- m87-bluejet
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/m87-bluejet.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-06-09T11:11+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
