VLA 6cm (radio) 1988

Esahubble_opo9814g_1024

esahubble_opo9814g May 14th, 1998

Credit: Jack O. Burns (University of Missouri) & David Clarke (St. Mary's University,Nova Scotia)

The elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is well known for its dramatic dusty lanes of dark material and its central supermassive black hole, which ejects material with a relativistic speed from the nucelus of the galaxy. This image shows, that, whereas the main part of the galaxy is invisible, these jets emmit radiation in radio wavelengths. By taking radio observations of the jets separated by a decade, astronomers have determined that the inner parts of the jets are moving at about one half of the speed of light.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9814g/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Centaurus A IRAS 13225-4245 NGC 5128
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Elliptical
Esahubble_opo9814g_1280
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ID
opo9814g
Subject Category
C.5.1.4  
Subject Name
Centaurus A, IRAS 13225-4245, NGC 5128
Credits
Jack O. Burns (University of Missouri) & David Clarke (St. Mary's University,Nova Scotia)
Release Date
1998-05-14T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9814g/
Type
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Instrument
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Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
596.0, 600.0
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Rotation
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Quality
FITS Header
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Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9814g
Metadata Date
2019-10-07T11:41:31.051096
Metadata Version
1.1
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