article_snippet: the region is known as Abell 2256, and is about 800 million light-years from Earth and about four million light-years across.
article_snippet: the image covers an area in the sky almost as large as the full moon.
article_snippet: We don't yet understand just why each of those sources have the shapes those sources have - we’re still working on that.
article_snippet: The VLA is at an altitude of 6970ft (2125 metres) and consists of 27 independent antennae .
article_snippet: Two of these, towards the right-hand side of the image, have long trails with these.
article_snippet: Perhaps the most notable part of the image is, as Dr Jean Eilek of the NRAO calls it, the ‘big fuzzy thing’ to the upper right.
article_snippet: This is known as the Large Relic, and This is a million light-years across but This formation is a mystery.