Sorry for the delay things have been a little hectic here at the House at Boo Corner, but hopefully we are getting back on track.  Last time I mentioned that some active galaxies have jets of relativistic plasma. We don’t really know the mechanisms behind why they occur, it is an area of study. There is a typical classification of jets into two types, FRI and FRII, though part of what Hare is looking at is the fact that it really isn’t so simple.  The FRI’s are brightest at their cores and the FRII’s they are brightest in their lobes.  What the very clever Bear who was working with Tawny previously did with her computer knowledge, was create a Python code which looks for the path travelled by the jet.  What Tawny did was give this code to me; now I may be a bear of slightly more than very little brain, but I don’t know much about Python. It has taken me three weeks of looking at this code and to be fair I know more about it than I did when I started but not much more. What I do know is that I magically (insert the adjective – Googled) removed the errors, add new data and updated it a little! Low and behold I end up with some pretty pictures of jets and lines to show the path possibly travelled.  I have included some above, the darker colours are the less energetic/hot areas and the brighter colours, they are the bright areas.  The red and black lines, those are the pathways travelled.
