An Old Fogey’s History of Radio Jets

This paper describes a personal view of the discovery of radio jets in celestial radio sources. The existence of narrow, collimated optical features in distant objects has been known about since the early 20th century; however, the advent of radio astronomy in the 1940s and 1950s revealed the existe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ralph Spencer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-10-01
Series:Galaxies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/5/4/68