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False color image of the radio jet and lobes in the hyperluminous radio galaxy Cygnus A. Red shows regions with the brightest radio emission, while blue shows regions of fainter emission.

Investigator(s):  R. Perley, C. Carilli & J. Dreher

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• Read the Journal article
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Technical Data

Telescope	VLA
Date of Observation	1983-02-01
Type of Observation	Continuum Observations
Band	C
Wavelength	6 cm
Frequency	5.0 GHz
Center of Image	RA: 19:59:28.36, Dec: 40:44:1.90
Field of View	0.0383 x 0.0217 degrees
Technical Caption	5 GHz, 0.5'' resolution. The galaxy is at a redshift of 0.057 (distance = 230 Mpc = 760 Mly).



Astronomical database entries for Cygnus A
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• Query SIMBAD for more Cygnus A data

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