Beautiful Radio Images of Astronomical Sources

These images are intended to be used for publicity purposes, with proper acknowledgement of those who provided them. If you are not Martha Haynes, DO NOT USE OR LINK TO any of these images without first contacting mrupen@nrao.edu.

On the other hand, if you have pretty radio images that you feel deserve to be in this compilation (intended for use by the decade review panel), please let me know by emailing mrupen@nrao.edu.

The displayed images are all JPGs; follow the links to get gzip'd postscript (in most browsers, holding down the SHIFT key while clicking on the link will download (rather than display) the file). The .ps files should be much better than the JPGs for overheads and the like.


These are separate images which the people indicated have agreed you can use. They're roughly ordered by distance, but only roughly. Descriptions and references are available if you want them.

Solar system objects Bryan Butler (NRAO) Mercury (radar) merc-radar.gif
Bryan Butler (NRAO) Mercury (thermx) merc-thermx.gif
Bryan Butler (NRAO) Mars (radar) mars-radar.gif
Bryan Butler (NRAO) Jupiter jupl312.gif
Bryan Butler (NRAO) Saturn saturn-1994.gif
X-ray novae Amy Mioduszewski (Sydney Univ./NRAO) CI Cam (VLBA) cicam.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Galactic supernova remnants Kristy Dyer (NCSU) SN 1006(VLA) sn1006.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Kristy Dyer (NCSU) 3C391 (VLA) 3C391.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Kristy Dyer (NCSU) 3C396 (VLA) 3C396.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Kristy Dyer (NCSU) 3C397 (VLA) 3C397.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Miller Goss (NRAO) W50 (around SS433) (VLA) w50.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Pulsars shooting out of supernova remnants Dale Frail (NRAO) The Duck (VLA) duck.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Dale Frail (NRAO) The Duck (VLA) duckfig1.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Dale Frail (NRAO) The Mouse (VLA) mouse.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
The Galactic Center (Sgr A*) Anantharamaiah (NRAO/???) 333 MHz image (2x2.6 degrees) (VLA) galctr333.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Magnetic fields in galaxies Rainer Beck (MPIfR) M51 -- total intensity (VLA+Bonn) m51cm6i.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Rainer Beck (MPIfR) M51 -- pol'd intensity contours (VLA+Bonn) m51cm6i+pi.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Supernovae Michael Rupen (NRAO) Supernova 1993J in M81 (VLBA+EVN+DSN+other) sn93j.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Luminous infrared (star-forming) galaxies Jim Ulvestad (NRAO) The Antenna (N4038/9) (VLA) antennae.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Jim Ulvestad (NRAO) NGC 253 (VLA) n253.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Interacting galaxies Min Su Yun (NRAO) HI in the M81 Group (VLA) m81mosaic.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) & extragalactic jets Phil Hardee (Alabama) (not the original observer, but the source of the image) Hercules A (VLA) herca.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Craig Walker (NRAO) 3C 120 (VLBA) 3c120r.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Craig Walker (NRAO) 3C 84 at 1cm (VLBA) 3C84_BV16C_1cm.reds2.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Craig Walker (NRAO) 3C 84 at many freqs. (VLBA) 3C84.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
3C84rot.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Accretion disks in AGNs Alison Peck (NRAO/NMT) HI absorption against 1946+708 (VLBA) hi1946.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Greg Taylor (NRAO) Rotation measures in quasar cores (VLBA) qcores.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Galaxy clusters Marc Verheijen (NRAO) HI in Ursa Major (WSRT) UMaHI.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Rick Perley (NRAO) Coma at 74 MHz (VLA) coma.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]
Rick Perley (NRAO) Virgo A at 74 MHz (VLA) virgoa.jpg gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]

The following are links that I've found to pretty radio images. Only Alan Bridle has explicitly OK'd these for your use, though I expect most other folks would be more than pleased to do so, since they're already on the Web.

Saturn Duane Muhleman (Caltech) http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~pa/ (VLA)
Jupiter movies Bob Sault (Caltech) http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rsault/Jupiter/ (VLA, ATCA)
Galactic (star clusters, molecular clouds, etc.) Al Wootten (NRAO) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten (12m, mostly)
M87 Frazer Owen (NRAO) http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~fowen/ (VLBI)
Radio galaxies Alan Bridle (NRAO) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~abridle/images.htm (VLA)
Greg Taylor (NRAO) http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~gtaylor/radiogal.html (VLBI)
Alan Bridle (NRAO) http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/atlas/icon.html (various)
Interacting galaxies John Hibbard (NRAO) http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~jhibbard (VLA)
...and high-z galaxies Min Su Yun (NRAO) http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~myun/ (VLA, OVRO)

Last modified 28 February 2000

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