Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  Centaurus A  ·  NGC 5128
NGC 5128 / Centaurus A, Giuseppe Donatiello
NGC 5128 / Centaurus A
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NGC 5128 / Centaurus A

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NGC 5128 / Centaurus A, Giuseppe Donatiello
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NGC 5128 / Centaurus A

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Centaurus A

Credit: ESO/Dss2, Giuseppe Donatiello

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.

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NGC 5128 / Centaurus A, Giuseppe Donatiello

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