Centaurus A
Colour composite image of Centaurus A, revealing the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxy’s central black hole. This is a composite of images obtained with three instruments, operating at very different wavelengths. The 870-micron submillimetre data, from LABOCA on APEX, are shown in orange. X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in blue. Visible light data from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope located at La Silla, Chile, show the background stars and the galaxy’s characteristic dust lane in close to "true colour".
Credit:
ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray)
About the Image
| Id: | eso0903a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 28 January 2009 |
| Related releases: | eso0903 |
| Size: | 2808 x 2957 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Centaurus A, NGC 5128 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Elliptical • Local Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole • Galaxies |
| Distance: | 13 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| X-ray | Chandra X-ray Observatory | |
| Optical B |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope 2.2 m WFI | |
| Optical V |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope 2.2 m WFI | |
| Millimeter Submillimetre |
870 μm | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) LABOCA |
| Optical R |
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope 2.2 m WFI |
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