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Top left panel: enhanced UVIT image (smoothed and with a higher contrast to show larger and fainter features) of NGC 6302 in F169M filter showing the fainter extensions. The FUV lobes are inclined at an angle to the east-west direction at PA of 113°. The “jets” are almost perpendicular to the FUV lobes. An optical image has been superposed (in green) on the figure for comparison of the size of FUV lobes and jets with the optical nebula. We note that the optical lobes are extended in east-west direction and the torus in north-south. Bottom panel: profiles of crosscuts (in flux density units – erg cm−2 s−1−1 subpix−2 across the white line shown in top left panel) in the filters F169M and F172M. We note the extent of the lobes in the F169M image (blue) relative to that of the F172M image (red). Although the core of the profiles in both filters are of the same extent and are similar to that of optical nebular images, only F169M image has lobes that extend on either side to about 5 arcmin. Top right panel: star-subtracted 3D plot of the F169 image. An optical image(in red) has been superposed for comparison. The eastern and shorter western lobes can be clearly seen in this plot.

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