The dust lane in NGC 708 as imaged by theHubble Space Telescope.NGC 705 can be seen at the lower right of the image.
Discovered in 1979 by Kotanyi et al., NGC 708 has a thin dust lane[15] with an irregular structure.[16][17][18][4] Besides the dust lane, there are also patches of dust that cross the nucleus.[16][17][18] These features are oriented nearly perpendicular to the radio emission of the galaxy.[19][20][12][7][5] The lane appears to be a nearly edge-on dust disk[21] with a length of 16,000 ly (5 kpc).[22]
NGC 708 contains two radio jets[22] that are mildly bent[22][24] and extend into ''s'' shaped[7][11] double radio lobes[9][10][12][11] with a total length of 200,000 ly (60 kpc).[11]
Chandra observations have shown that the lobes have created a cavity in the intracluster medium of Abell 262.[10]
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