(a) RGB colour image of the host galaxy of 3C 293 from DECaLS (https://www.legacysurvey.org/) (Dey et al. 2019). A small companion galaxy can be seen in the south-west, ~37′′ away from the host galaxy. The red contours show the Very Large Array (VLA) 1.36 GHz emission at 4.6′′ × 4.1′′ resolution from archival data we have reprocessed. The outer lobes extend in the north-west and south-east direction and are aligned almost perpendicular to the orientation of the dust lanes and the gas disk. The blue box marks the region covered by the blue contours in the right panel. (b) DECaLS RGB colour image overlaid with black contours that map the CO(1–0) emission disc from Labiano et al. (2014) with the south-western side approaching us and northeastern side receding. The blue contours show the 120–168 MHz radio continuum emission from the inner ~4.5 kpc as seen in our new LOFAR image. The inner lobes extend in east and west and can be seen to bend out of the host galaxy’s COdisk, especially in the east.