Vikas Chander, taken from Observatorio El Sauce within the Río Hurtado Valley, Chile

Simply 12 million light-years away, Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the closest lively galaxy to us, with a supermassive black hole at its core spitting materials again out into the intergalactic medium. Famously, these outflows will be seen in radio emission as monumental lobes on both facet of the galaxy. Nevertheless, this Hα/OIII/LRGB picture taken from the Atacama Desert in Chile with a robotic 24-inch scope (and practically 24 hours of publicity) provides an in depth view of ejections of matter in seen mild at backside proper.