Cygnus A

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4672.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4672. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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The brightest radio source in the constellation of Cygnus, and the second-brightest cosmic radio source in the sky. This radio source, which had been detected in 1944 by Grote Reber (1911-), was shown in 1951 to coincide in position with a remote galaxy of unusual appearance (the galaxy appeared double, but is now known to be a single galaxy crossed by a lane of dust). Cygnus A was the first radi...

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