Dave and the Girls Fly a Kite by the Light of 3C58

The sky in this collage shows a radio image the supernova remnant 3C58 The radio nebula is energized by a recently discovered pulsar. The beautiful filamentary structure of the nebula is brought out in this recent radio images, which was made using the NRAO Very Large Array telescope.

A new image of 3C58 made using the A, B, and C array configurations, which shows a wealth of new detail in this pulsar-powered supernova remnant.

Legacy Astronomical Images

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Legacy Astronomical Image

3C58

M. F. Bietenholz

Very Large Array (VLA)

2004-04-19

continuum

L

20 cm

1.4 GHz

RA 2:5:39.000, Dec: 64:49:33.000 (J2000)

0.166667 x 0.083333 degrees

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