Virgo A

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4686.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4686. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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The brightest radio source in the constellation of Virgo. Virgo A, otherwise known by the catalog number 3C 274, coincides with M87 a giant elliptical galaxy, and active galaxy, located at a distance of some 50 million light-years in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Although part of the radio emission comes from two elongated lobes, one on either side of the center of the galaxy, the lobes, which s...

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