Alcyoneus (galaxy)
id:
alcyoneus-galaxy-189-5073297
title:
Alcyoneus (galaxy)
text:
Alcyoneus is a low-excitation, Fanaroff–Riley class II radio galaxy located 3.5 billion light-years from Earth, corresponding to the galaxy SDSS J081421.68+522410.0. It is located in the constellation Lynx and it was discovered in Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) data by a team of astronomers led by Martijn Oei. As of 2024 it has the second-largest extent of radio structure of any radio galaxy identified, with lobed structures spanning 5 megaparsecs across, described by its discoverers at the time as
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Large radio galaxy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyoneus_(galaxy)
date created:
2022-02-16T12:18:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T03:48:20Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/GRGAlcyoneusIRBlueRadioOrange.png","width":2048,"height":2048}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16