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Colour composite image of Centaurus A, combining data from ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray). Not related objects have been edited out.

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English: Centaurus A is a starburst galaxy about 13 million ly away in the constellation of Centaurus - The fifth-brightest in the sky and one of the closest radio galaxies to Earth - Once a large elliptical galaxy that collided and merged with a smaller spiral galaxy - The bulge is composed mainly of evolved red stars while the dusty disk has had more recent star formation - The center contains a supermassive black hole which ejects a relativistic jet moving at about half of the speed of light -
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