NGC 5128/Centaurus A: 150 Years of Wonder

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2369. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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Just over 150 years ago, in 1847, Sir John Herschel saw in the southern sky `a most wonderful object … cut asunder … by a broad obscure band' (see HERSCHEL FAMILY). At the time, there was no clue as to the nature of this celestial object. It took well over half a century for observational astronomy to advance to the point where it could hypothesize that it was extra-galactic, and only in the las...

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