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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 17 Jan, 2021 | Image Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft e

Posted on 01/17/2021 3:09:28 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: The jets emanating from Centaurus A are over a million light years long. These jets of streaming plasma, expelled by a giant black hole in the center of this spiral galaxy, light up this composite image of Cen A. Exactly how the central black hole expels infalling matter remains unknown. After clearing the galaxy, however, the jets inflate large radio bubbles that likely glow for millions of years. If energized by a passing gas cloud, the radio bubbles can even light up again after billions of years. X-ray light is depicted in the featured composite image in blue, while microwave light is colored orange. The base of the jet in radio light shows details of the innermost light year of the central jet.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: centaurus; nasa
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To: Fred Nerks

So what happens if say a solar system or part of it happens to pass trough that stream. I wonder.


21 posted on 01/17/2021 7:46:27 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

I believe the distances between galaxies are too vast for that to happen.

Black holes are the centres of galaxies, that’s where all the suns and planets go down the gurgler...and come out the other side as plasma/energy...probably to form huge gass-clouds that swirl into discs of matter, making new spheres we call planets.

In other words, everything I see is just like kitchen-physics. As below, so above. Round and round it all goes.


22 posted on 01/17/2021 8:21:26 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: MtnClimber

This is what happens after an ‘All You Can Eat’ Mexican Buffet opens up ..........................


23 posted on 01/18/2021 5:15:44 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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