Some Spectacular Jets

Radio galaxies can have incredibly large jets that escape from the galaxy itself and penetrate many thousands of parsecs into the surrounding space. Here are a couple of examples:

Long curved jets in 3C31 3C31 (From A. Bridle, http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~abridle/3c31.htm)
Straight jets with lobes at end in Cygnus A Cygnus A

(From Carilli and Barthel, http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Carilli/Car2_1.html)