The Roar of the Centaur -- Bad Astronomy @ Discover Magazine

blogs.discovermagazine.com — Centaurus A is a nearby galaxy — at 13 million light years distant, only a handful of big galaxies are closer to us. And it’s weird: it’s an elliptical galaxy eating a spiral! They’re in the last stages of merging into one bigger and messier galaxy. Dust from the spiral forms a huge ring around the center of the galaxy, with the gas and dust... Jan 28, 2009 View in Crawl 4