NGC 5128 | Centaurus A Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Size:3XL As the observatory grows

As the observatory grows

does not include the H-alpha emission line of interstellar hydrogen in this galaxy

University of Minnesota/NOAO/AURA/NSF (Optical)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

the CCD frames were flat-fielded and cleaned of cosmic-rays

NGC 5128 | Centaurus A Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Size:3XL As the observatory growsColour composite image of Centaurus A, revealing the lobes and jets emanating from the active galaxys 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