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About this Image

The sky in this collage shows a radio image the supernova remnant 3C58 The radio nebula is energized by a recently discovered pulsar. The beautiful filamentary structure of the nebula is brought out in this recent radio images, which was made using the NRAO Very Large Array telescope.

Investigator(s):  M. F. Bietenholz

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Technical Data

Telescope	VLA
Date of Observation	2004-04-19
Type of Observation	Continuum Observations
Band	L
Wavelength	20 cm
Frequency	1.4 GHz
Center of Image	RA: 02:05:39.00, Dec: 64:49:33.00 (J2000)
Field of View	0.1667 x 0.0833 degrees
Technical Caption	A new image of 3C58 made using the A, B, and C array configurations, which shows a wealth of new detail in this pulsar-powered supernova remnant.



Astronomical database entries for 3C58
• Query NED for images of 3C58
• Query SIMBAD for more 3C58 data

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