File:M87 jet.jpg
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Summary
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English: The jet emerging from the galactic core of M87 (NGC 4486). The jet extends to about 20 arc seconds (absolute length ca. 5 kly).
Composite image of Hubble Telescope observations. The galaxy is too distant for the Hubble Telescope to resolve individual stars; the bright dots in the image are star clusters, assumed to contain some hundreds of thousands of stars each. Original caption:
Čeština: Výtrysk plazmatu z jádra galaxie M87, který vychází z okolí černé díry
العربية: تدفق مادي ناتج عن ثقب أسود ينبثق من المنطقة المركزية لمجرة مسييه 87. |
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| Source | HubbleSite: gallery, release. |
| Author | NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
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This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Messier 87. You can see its nomination here. |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |
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| current | 10:51, 14 March 2007 | | 1,222 × 1,276 (1.71 MB) | wikimediacommons>Tevatron~commonswiki | {{Information |Description= Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light. I |
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