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Peculiar Galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)

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Peculiar Galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)
This extraordinary radio galaxy is located in the constellation Centaurus, 11 million ly from Earth. At visible wavelengths a dust lane crosses the face of the galaxy.
Superimposed on this visible image is a false-color radio image (green) showing that vast quantities of radio radiation pour from matter ejected from the galaxy
perpendicular to the dust lane, along with radio emission (rose-colored) along the dust lane, and X-ray emission (blue) detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray
Observatory. The X rays may be from material ejected by the black hole or from the collision of Centaurus A with a smaller galaxy. (Inset) This X-ray image from
the Einstein Observatory shows that NGC 5128 has a bright X-ray nucleus. An X-ray jet protrudes from the nucleus along a direction perpendicular to the
galaxy’s dust lane
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