Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Thu Jul 12 2018 10:18:07 APOD: 2018 July 12 - Centaurus A Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 July 12 [2] Centaurus A Image Credit & Copyright [3] : CEDIC Team [4] at Chilescope [5] , Processing - Bernhard Hubl [6] Explanation: Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus [7] A is the closest active galaxy [8] to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy also known as NGC 5128 [9] , is featured in this sharp telescopic view [10] . Centaurus A is [11] apparently the result of a collision [12] of two otherwise normal galaxies resulting in a fantastic jumble of star clusters and imposing dark dust lanes. Near the galaxy's center [13] , left over cosmic debris is steadily being consumed by a central black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun. As in other [14] active galaxies, that process likely generates the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy radiated by Centaurus A [15] . Tomorrow's picture: turn your radio on [16] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [17] | Archive [18] | Submissions [19] | Index [20] | Search [21] | Calendar [22] | RSS [23] | Education [24] | About APOD [25] | Discuss [26] | > [27] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [28] (MTU [29] ) & Jerry Bonnell [30] (UMCP [31] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [32] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [33] A service of: ASD [34] at NASA [35] / GSFC [36] & Michigan Tech. U. [37] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1807/N5128-3_Hubl.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] http://www.cedic.at/ [5] http://www.chilescope.com/about/chilescope/ [6] http://astrophoton.com/about_me.htm [7] http://www.rasnz.org.nz/Stars/Centaurus.htm [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus [9] http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/n5128.html [10] http://www.astrophoton.com/NGC5128-3.htm [11] http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/14/ text/ [12] http://burro.cwru.edu/JavaLab/GalCrashWeb/ [13] ap060304.html [14] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/ nasas-fermi-mission-finds-hints-of-gamma-ray-cycle-in-an-active-galaxy [15] ap080110.html [16] ap180713.html [17] ap180711.html [18] archivepix.html [19] lib/apsubmit2015.html [20] lib/aptree.html [21] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [22] calendar/allyears.html [23] /apod.rss [24] lib/edlinks.html [25] lib/about_apod.html [26] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180712 [27] ap180713.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [29] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [30] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [31] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [32] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [33] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [34] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/ [36] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [37] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .