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VLA image of the famous "blowtorch" jet in the galaxy NGC6251.

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Technical Data

Telescope	VLA
Date of Observation	1995-08-15
Type of Observation	Continuum Observations
Band	L
Wavelength	20 cm
Frequency	1.4 GHz
Center of Image	RA: 16:32:32.00, Dec: 82:32:16.00 (J2000)
Field of View	0.0500 x 0.0833 degrees
Technical Caption	The data was obtained from the VLA archive for analysis with X-ray images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton.



Astronomical database entries for NGC6251
• Query NED for images of NGC6251
• Query SIMBAD for more NGC6251 data

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