Zooming into Galaxy Centaurus A | ESO

Zooming into Galaxy Centaurus A | ESO

This video zoom sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We close in on a region not far from the plane of a the galaxy and can soon see a strange fuzz with a dark band across it. This is the famous peculiar radio galaxy Centaurus A. The final view shows a very detailed image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Distance: 13 million light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Nick Risinger

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: May 16, 2012

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