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An image showing the nucleus of the galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The centre of the galaxy harbours the closest active galactic nucleus (AGN) to Earth, at a distance of 11 million light years.
Image by E.J. Schreier (Space Telescope Science Institute) and NASA