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Centaurus A
Centaurus A
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
(remote data set)
AR: 201,385° DEC: -43,061°
NGC 5128 or Centaurus A is one of the closest radio galaxies to Earth at a distance of approximately 12 million light-years. It has a distinctive central dust lane and an active galactic nucleus containing a supermassive black hole creating a relativistic jet which emits in visual, radio and X-ray wavelengths.
It is an unusual galaxy, possibly the result of a merger between an elliptical galaxy and a smaller spiral galaxy.
Centaurus A
Centaurus A
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
(remote data set)
AR: 201,385° DEC: -43,061°
NGC 5128 or Centaurus A is one of the closest radio galaxies to Earth at a distance of approximately 12 million light-years. It has a distinctive central dust lane and an active galactic nucleus containing a supermassive black hole creating a relativistic jet which emits in visual, radio and X-ray wavelengths.
It is an unusual galaxy, possibly the result of a merger between an elliptical galaxy and a smaller spiral galaxy.