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About this Image

This is 20cm total intensity map. The highly unusual compact object SS 433 appears to be located near the center of W 50, a large nonthermal galactic radio source postulated to be a SNR.

Investigator(s):  Gloria Dubner, Mark Holdaway, Miller Goss and Felix Mirabel

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For More Information

• Read the Journal article
• Visit related website http://www.iafe.uba.ar/astronomia/snr/iSNRs.html
• Up one level for more info on Supernova_Remnants
• For unfamiliar terms, visit the NRAO Radio Astronomy Glossary

Technical Data

Telescope	VLA
Date of Observation	1996-00-00
Type of Observation	Continuum Observations
Center of Image	RA: 19:11:49.00, Dec: 04:59:12.00 (J2000)
Field of View	3.0000 x 1.7000 degrees
Technical Caption	The map was made from a mosaic of 58 different pointings.



Astronomical database entries for w50
• Query SIMBAD for more w50 data

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