Centaurus A All Prettied Up in Infrared and X-Rays

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Centaurus A All Prettied Up in Infrared and X-Rays

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Inner structural features seen in this image from ESA Herschel Space Observatory are helping scientists to understand the mechanisms and interactions within the galaxy.
Far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/C.D. Wilson, MacMaster University, Canada; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC

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04/04/2012
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California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory34.20139, -118.17341
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