Centaurus A
A bright galaxy crossed by a dark band of dust, one of the strongest sources of radio waves in the sky.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Galaxy
- Distance
- 12 million light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 6.84, a sight for binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About as wide as the full Moon
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Catalogue
- NGC 5128
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “Centaurus A”, CC BY-SA 4.0: 11 to 13 million ly, middle of the range (Tonry et al. 2001); V SIMBAD. All sources