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Radio Image of the Week 📡

Galaxies are more than just stars. They also have vast regions of dust from which new stars can form. This image of the galaxy NGC 628 is a composite of the visible galaxy seen by Hubble (blue) and its dust (orange) seen by the PHANGS-ALMA survey.

Radio #ImageofTheWeek: Microwave lasers in space! Sometimes when a molecule such as water is heated in space, it can emit laser light at microwave frequencies.

Image credit: S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF
#VLA #VLBA #microwave #lasers

Astronomers using the Very Large Array took advantage of the gravitational lensing provided by a distant cluster of galaxies (5-billion light-years away) to detect an even more-distant galaxy (8-billion light years).

Faintest radio object ever found?

https://t.co/WkcGwOhoCR

Giant salamander? Actually, it's Jupiter in radio waves! This shape — of our Solar System’s largest planet — is caused by charged particles erupting from its volcanic moon, Io, and barreling along the planets gigantic magnetic field. #VLAData #Jupiter

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

Panorama of a segment of the Milky Way illustrates dynamic interplay between birth & death of massive stars in our Galaxy. This composite image was constructed from radio data taken in several configurations at the #VLA & mid-infrared data by @NASAspitzer. https://t.co/Tc6dIuKSCQ

New @almaobs discovery! Low-mass stars are forming startlingly close to the supermassive #blackhole at the center of the Milky Way. Image of double-lobe jets produced by newly forming star 💫

https://t.co/pJ5wHh2H2F

“@TheNRAO: Good morning, radio astronomy friends!
Credit: Knate Myers http://t.co/OrkKaaWa3U”

Breathtaking astrophoto of a VLA antenna hard at work. Credit: @KnatePhoto. http://t.co/07osjuzxxP