[8] In addition, the host is also found to be interacting with its companion, a large barred spiral galaxy located 85.1 arcseconds away with a position angle of 67.7°.

[9] Very Large Array radio imaging of 3C 382 shows the source has a wider extension of more than 2 arcmin.

The southern radio lobe of 3C 382 also has a hotspot region, but has no clear indication of a counterpart jet although detections of low polarization are present.

Although its infrared flux was found to be constant during the outburst onset, it displayed increased levels at 2.28 μm in 1978.

[14] In 1985, EXOSAT observations detected another outburst in the galaxy where its medium and low energy spectra showed maximum to minimum variations of 120% and 110% respectively.