Centaurus A Galaxy Wall Art including Frame Sizes:LARGE (30x30) Maercker et al

Maercker et al

Researchers were surprised to see such a brilliant infrared glow in an area so far offset from the center of the merging spiral galaxy

5 light-years high

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Centaurus A Galaxy Wall Art including Frame Sizes:LARGE (30x30) Maercker et alFull field of view image (in false colour) obtained during the Test Bed Telescopes first light tests at ESOs La Silla Observatory in Chile. The individual light sources are stars, with the galaxy Centaurus A visible in the centre of the image. While the telescope will be used to detect near Earth objects rather than observing galaxies, images like these are important to test if the telescope is working as expected. Even during its commissioning phase,