Ok. So this is totally sweet. Look at those maps. Two maps of the same object at two different (but close together) radio wavelengths. It's a bipolar planetary. The primary emission at the central peak overlaps, as does the emission fAwesome!rom the bump to the west. The southeast lobe in the right-hand map is nearly mirror image of the northwest extended lobe+bump! This is really rare. We are seeing radio emission from the bipolar axes of the nebular outflow. What does it mean? It means that my little fishing expedition paid off, and we have an object that should be examined in LOTS more detail to look for magnetic fields! Sweet!
p.s. It's also fun that in the right image, there's a big Easter Island statue at the top. that's random... I'll have to look in the catalogs for a background object...
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