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Description: The energy jet of M87. Glow is caused by synchrotron radiation, high-energy electrons moving along a spiral track along the magnetic field, first discovered in 1956 by Geoffrey R. Burbidge'a in M87, confirming predictions Hannes Alfvén and Nicolai Herlofsona of 1950 and Iosif Samuilovicha Shklovskyego 1953.
Title: M87-jets
Credit: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011101.html (image link) http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/0134/index.html (image link)
Author: X-ray: H. Marshall (MIT), et al., CXC, NASA Radio: F. Zhou, F. Owen (NRAO), J. Biretta (STScI) Optical: E. Perlman (UMBC), et al., STScI, NASA
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