28 . 0 Radio Astronomy Academic and Research Staff

We have discovered a "counter-jet" in the radio galaxy Cygnus A. This follows the earlier achievement, with Perley of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (N RAO), of the discovery of the relativistic jet that emanates from the active galactic nucleus (a discovery that was made through their new methods of image processing at the the Very Large Array (VLA) at NRAO). A related project, a detailed polarization map of the radio galaxy, has also been completed. A new observing project, one of the largest programs ever undertaken at the VLA, has been begun to extend these methods to a larger selection of radio galaxies.