{"id":3926624,"date":"2026-06-22T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/bow-and-arrow-shaped-radio-galaxy-discovered-by-citizen-scientist\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:03:11","slug":"bow-and-arrow-shaped-radio-galaxy-discovered-by-citizen-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/bow-and-arrow-shaped-radio-galaxy-discovered-by-citizen-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers have discovered a &#8220;remarkable&#8221; bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years across. The newly identified system, detailed in a new paper published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, has a &#8220;highly unusual&#8221; and asymmetric structure unlike those seen in standard radio galaxies.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-arrow-radio-galaxy-citizen-scientist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a &#8220;remarkable&#8221; bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years across. The newly identified system, detailed in a new paper published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, has a &#8220;highly unusual&#8221; and asymmetric structure unlike those seen in standard radio galaxies. <\/p>\n<p>Go to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}