Zooming into Centaurus A

This zoom shows a spectacular portrait of Centaurus A that was captured with the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. 

Credit:

CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA

Acknowledgments: 

PI: M. Soraisam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/NSF's NOIRLab)

Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) 

Music: Zero-project :Through the Looking Glass (zero-project.gr)

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Id:noirlab2125b
Release date:Aug. 31, 2021, 9 a.m.
Related releases:noirlab2125
Duration:59 s
Frame rate:29.97

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