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Nature-CenA-COmosaic
Image Credit: Espada and Matsushita, 2012, ApJ

Left: Optical image of Centaurus A (ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, J.-E. Ovaldsen, & S. Guisard, ESO). Prominent dust lane is clearly visible. Right: Molecular gas (CO J = 2-1) observed with the SMA (green), PAH and dust emission at 8 micron observed with the Spitzer (red; Quillen et al. 2006), and the high energy jet observed with the Chandra X-ray observatory (blue) (Espada et al. 2012, ApJ, 756, L10).