The Jets of NGC 1097 (APOD 2009 November 27)

[neufer]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091127.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091127.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061201.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090727.html

Colour-composite image of the central 5,500 light-years wide region of the
spiral galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics on the VLT.

http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 11&t=17140
http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... =9&t=17148

[orin stepanek]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091127.html

Seems like a lot of disruption from the capture of a smaller galaxy in the past. I would think everything would be settled in after a while?

Orin