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

Maercker et al

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 3

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders

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,