Wednesday, August 26, 2020

NASA missions explore a 'TIE Fighter' active galaxy

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2020
Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has a strikingly familiar shape. In the process, they discovered the object, called TXS 0128+554, experienced two powerful bouts of activity in the last century. Around five years ago, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reported that TXS 0128+554 (TXS 0128 for short) is a faint source of gamma ray

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