Bright Galaxy Centaurus A
Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky -- making it an ideal
target for amateur astronomers -- and is famous for the dust lane across its
middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its
center. Cen A is an active galaxy about 12 million light years from Earth.
This image is part of a "quartet
of galaxies" collaboration of professional and amateur astronomers that
combines optical data from amateur telescopes with data from the archives of
NASA missions. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages
the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., controls Chandra's
science and flight operations.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Rolf Olsen; Infrared:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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