3C433 = B2121+248

• Unusual double-lobed radio galaxy at z = 0.1016 (440 Mpc, H = 70 km/s/Mpc, Ω_m=0.27, Ω_Λ=0.73)
• Host galaxy is a member of a close pair in a small group
• Bright hot spots and other structure in asymmetric lobes
• Well, collimated, one-sided radio jet
• Left panel: VLA 8.5 GHz (λ3.6cm) image at 0.75 arcsec resolution
• Image scale 2.1 kpc/arcsec
• Right panel: VLA image (red) on HST WFPC2 image (blue-green)
• See the 3CRR Atlas for further details

Radio data from "A study of FRII radio galaxies with z<0.15 -- I. High resolution maps of eight sources at 3.6 cm" by A.R.S.Black, S.A.Baum, J.P.Leahy, R.A.Perley, J.M.Riley, & P.A.G.Scheuer, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 256, 186-208 (1992)

Optical data from Sigrid de Koff, Stefi A. Baum, William B. Sparks, John Biretta, Daniel Golombek, Fernandino Machetto, Patrick McCarthy & George K. Miley, "HST Snapshot Survey of 3CR Radio Source Counterparts: I. Intermediate Redshifts", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 107, 621-660 (1996)

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