Centaurus A - Gallery

Gallery

• The radio galaxy Centaurus A, as seen by ALMA

• Image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

• "Hubble's panchromatic vision... reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters..."

• A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the dust disk in front of the nucleus of Centaurus A. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA.

• This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was absorbed about 200 to 700 million years ago.

• The heavily-obscured inner (barred?) spiral disk at 24 μm as shown by the Spitzer IR telescope

• Chandra X-Ray view of Cen A in X Rays showing one relativistic jet from the central black hole

• A composite image showing the size of the radio glow from the galaxy Centaurus A in comparison to the full Moon.

• Video about Centaurus A jets.

• "False-colour image of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A, showing radio (red), 24-micrometre infrared (green) and 0.5-5 keV X-ray emission (blue). The jet can be seen to emit synchrotron emission in all three wavebands. The lobes only emit in the radio frequency range, and so appear red. Gas and dust in the galaxy emits thermal radiation in the infrared. Thermal X-ray radiation from hot gas and non-thermal emission from relativistic electrons can be seen in the blue 'shells' around the lobes, particularly to the south (bottom)."