Dec 5, 2024 · A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There’s a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, an extragalactic jet …

Sep 9, 1993 · The Green (V band) image (left) shows the field around the quasar 3c 273 (courtesy Matthew Colless, David Schade and the CFHT). The optical jet can be seen SW of the quasar. The blue (B band) image (right) shows the optical jet as seen by the Faint Object Camera (FOC) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. For comparasion, the 11X11 arcesec FOC ...

Dec 5, 2024 · A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as weird filaments, lobes, and a mysterious L-shaped structure, probably caused by small ...

This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).

Apr 19, 2024 · HST Snaps Optical Jet of Quasar 3c 273 (1993-30-121).tiff 3,324 × 1,595; 8.97 MB

Dec 5, 2024 · A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There’s a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, an extragalactic jet …

Dec 5, 2024 · A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight.

This is quasar 3C 273 with jet imaged from Melbourne, Australia with EdgeHD11 at f/10. 56 x 5m exposures with C filter and ASI1600MMPro, 0.28" per pixel. This is the first quasar identified with a large redshift, and it required the Palomar 200" to image the jet at the time, around 1962-3.

Aug 25, 2020 · 3C 273 was 1.5 billion light years away from the sun, and was receding even further at a rate of 47,000 kilometers per SECOND. This odd object was further away and more luminous than most known galaxies!

Dec 10, 2024 · A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to see unprecedented details near the black hole such as weird filaments, lobes, and a mysterious L-shaped structure, probably caused by small ...