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Braided Galactic Jet
This is a ten thousand light-year long jet of plasma observed by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera, aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image, which is much sharper than previous pictures taken with ground based telescopes. reveals unprecedented detail in the jet. The most remarkable feature is a distinctive twisted ladder structure produced by two spiral filaments of plasma. The pair of strands are separated by about 500 light-years. Other details reveal unusual knots and kinks in the outflowing material. The jet is produced by energetic activity at the core of the galaxy perhaps due to gravitational accretion of material onto a super massive black hole.
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NASA and ESA
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