Centaurus A Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky. it is famous for the dust lane acr
Centaurus A Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky. it 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 our missions. -- source link
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