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Measurements of the polarization of the light near the nucleus of NGC 1068, provided strong evidence that it actually contain a type 1 nucleus.

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Measurements of the polarization of the light near the nucleus of NGC 1068 provided strong evidence that it actually contains a type 1 nucleus.

Source

The image appears on a website entitled, "Galaxy, jet, and obscuring disk in NGC 1068" at url=http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/agn/ngc1068.html.

Date

October 2003

Author

Bill Keel et al.

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No free licensed or public domain alternatives known to exist to show measurements of the polarization of the light near the nucleus of NGC 1068 providing strong evidence that it actually contains a type 1 nucleus.

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