NGC 1399
- NGC 1399 is the central dominant elliptical galaxy in the Fornax
cluster of galaxies.
An image of the optical (greyscale), radio continuum (green contour)
and Broadband X-ray (red contour) can be viewed by clicking
on the small image below. X-ray contours at the centre of the image
have been deleted to allow the radio jet to be seen clearly.
Image information
- X-ray: ROSAT PSPC, (0.1-2.4 keV), Observer: C. Jones (Rangarajan,
F.V.N., Fabian, A.C., Forman, W.R., Jones, C. 1995, MNRAS, 272, 665)
- Optical: Digitized Sky Survey, ASP/STScI/NASA/ESA
- Radio: VLA, 5 GHz, Observer: N. Killeen (Killeen, N.E.B.,
Bicknell, G.V., Ekers, G.V. 1988, ApJ, 325, 180.)
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