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Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky — making it an ideal target for amateur astronomers — and is famous for the dust lane across its middle and a giant jet blasting away from the supermassive black hole at its center! 📸Swipe left to peel back the layers of this image and see Centaurus A picture in visible light, X-ray light, infrared light, and radio light. Each light wavelength tells us something different! Dark dust lanes and young blue star clusters, which crisscross its central region, can be seen in visible and near-infrared light. But by switching to X-ray and radio light views, a much more active scene unfolds: spectacular jets of material have erupted from its active supermassive black hole sending material into space well beyond the galaxy’s limits. What’s next for this galaxy you might ask? Being viewed in high-definition by our @NASASolarSystem’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stay tuned! Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; optical: Rolf Olsen; infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/ #Galaxies #NASA #XRay #BlackHole #StarStuff #LookUp