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   Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:33:33 JST Kelly Lepo

   Today's #Hubble Favorite.

   What appears to be a rather ordinary-looking yellowish elliptical galaxy in Hubble’s visible-light view is Hercules A, one of the brightest objects in the radio light sky. 

   #VLA radio observations revealed enormous, one-and-a-half million light-years-long jets, seen here in pink. They are powered by a 2.5-billion-solar-mass black hole in the center of the galaxy.

   More: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2012/47/3110-Image.html
   #astronomy #space #galaxy