page_title: NGC 383
hierarchical_section_title: NGC 383
caption_attribution_description: I ended up looking at this galaxy because of a discussion on palindromic prime numbers, which 383 happens to be. Anyway, this is just the central disc of the galaxy. The whole galaxy is much larger, looking like a smooth, bright elliptical galaxy. What's much more interesting about this galaxy is something that I wasn't able to include because I couldn't find the data. Or, maybe it is more appropriate to say that the NRAO archive confused me. If I ever get the data I'll post a new version with the radio jets. They're really something. images.nrao.edu/257 I used a combination ACS/HRC F606W polarized light images for the luminosity for this and generated colors from the following data: Red: hst_06673_09_wfpc2_f814w_pc_sci Green: hst_05476_0j_wfpc2_f702w_pc_sci Blue: hst_06673_09_wfpc2_fr680n_wf_sci North is up.
context_page_description: NGC 383 is a double radio galaxy with a quasar-like appearance located in the constellation Pisces. It is listed in Halton C. Arp's 1966 "The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies." Recent discoveries by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 2006 reveal that NGC 383 is being bisected by high energy relativistic electrons traveling at relatively high fractions of the speed of light. These relativistic electrons are detected as synchrotron radiation in the x-ray and radio wavelengths. The focus of this intense energy is the galactic center of NGC 383. The relativistic electron jets detected as synchrotron radiation extend for several thousand parsecs and then appear to dissipate at the ends in the form of streamers or filaments.
  There are four other nearby galaxies NGC 379, NGC 380, NGC 385, and NGC 384 which are suspected of being closely associated with NGC 383, as well as several other galaxies at relatively close distance.
  A Type 1a supernova, SN 2015ar, was discovered in NGC 383 in November 2015.
context_section_description: NGC 383 is a double radio galaxy with a quasar-like appearance located in the constellation Pisces.  It is listed in Halton C. Arp's 1966 "The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies." Recent discoveries by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 2006 reveal that NGC 383 is being bisected by high energy relativistic electrons traveling at relatively high fractions of the speed of light.  These relativistic electrons are detected as synchrotron radiation in the x-ray and radio wavelengths.  The focus of this intense energy is the galactic center of NGC 383.  The relativistic electron jets detected as synchrotron radiation extend for several thousand parsecs and then appear to dissipate at the ends in the form of streamers or filaments.
  There are four other nearby galaxies NGC 379, NGC 380, NGC 385, and NGC 384 which are suspected of being closely associated with NGC 383, as well as several other galaxies at relatively close distance.
  A Type 1a supernova, SN 2015ar, was discovered in NGC 383 in November 2015.
caption: Hubble Legacy Archive image of NGC 383
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