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- Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Jet from Galaxy M87 (2011 Aug 28)
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Re: APOD: A Jet from Galaxy M87 (2011 Aug 28)
My knowledge of astronomy is not stellar (pardon the pun) but the shape of the jet raises another question: The jet is 5,000 light years long yet it is perfectly straight. Even if the components of the jet were traveling at light speed this would mean that the source would have to be facing the exac...