strong radio lobes with no clear IR host galaxy
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WizardHowl
The radio emission in this image clearly also shows strong emission in between the #twolobes that I would expect to be associated with a host galaxy but there is no IR source that matches this well and I marked it as such (leaving out the step to select an IR counterpart, not by clicking 'missing IR'). There is an IR signal a little to the upper left that might be a match, in which case the upper left lobe might be a separate radio source to the bottom right lobe, although the origin of that lobe would then be difficult to match up with certainty, as it overlaps multiple IR signals. My guess is the source galaxy for this #jet is just where the central radio emission is but is too faint in IR to have been detected.
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