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| | Galaxy Centaurus A / NGC 5128 |
 | | In 1949, NGC 5128 was found to be a powerful radio galaxy by early radio astronomers (which was first suggested by John Bolton, Gorden Stanley, and Bruce Slee in Nature, I64, 101, 1949; according to Baade and Minkowski, 1954, pp. |
 | | It then shared the additional designation of Centaurus A, which had been determined to be the brightest radio source in the direction of (13:25:28-43:1:11 J2000; and 13:25:27.6-43:1:8.8, ICRS 2000) of Constellation Centaurus, the Centaur, north of globular cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) and west of Mu Centauri -- map. |
 | | Found to be the closest "radio-loud" galaxy to the Solar System (José Luis Sérsic, 1960), its radio emissions comes from two giant lobes that extend over a million light-years (ly), roughly at right angles to the galaxy's dark dust band. |
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