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| | Micronauts Aliens - Centaurus |
 | | The most notable feature of Centaurus (other than the fact that he's a centaur) is his flowing glow-in-the-dark brain/mane. | | | As far as is known, Centaurus only came with one brain color. | | | Each of Centaurus's legs are blue with spikes protruding just above his black hooves. |
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http://www.micro-outpost.com/pictures/aliens/centaurus/centaurus.html
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| | Centaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Centaurus is also under the ecliptic, and thus considered to be in the underworld. | | | The Deep Photographic Guide to the Constellations: Centaurus | | | It contains Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf that is the nearest known star (other than the Sun) to Earth, as well as Alpha Centauri, which is a binary star to which Proxima Centauri is apparently gravitationally bound to form a triple star system. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurus
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| | Amazon.com: Crisis on Centaurus (Star Trek, No 28): Books: Brad Ferguson |
| | Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the Enterprise™ when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Star Fleet Command: Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated; thousands are dead. | | | Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the Enterprise when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Starfleet Command: "Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated. | | | But Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Now Lt. Uhura, left alone in command, must jeopardize the crippled Enterprise to save Centaurus, Kirk -- and Joanna McCoy! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671611151?v=glance
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| | Centaurus - The Centaur |
| | Alpha Centauri is really a triple star: bright components A (magnitude -0.04) and B (magnitude 1.17) form a double star. | | | The third component is a red dwarf (magnitude 10.7), more than 2 degrees away from the bright pair. | | | Centaurus has the figure of a half-man, half-horse creature. |
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/the_universe/cen2.html
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| | [ Centaurus ] |
| | Macquarie University Students complete their industry experience with Centaurus Technologies Pty Ltd and the Optical Fibre Technology Centre. | | | See our list of publications of interest for more information. | | | Their project was to assist in the development of novel fibre designs for high power fibre lasers. |
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| | MPE : Centaurus A - History |
| | Centaurus A also was largely ignored because of the lack of large optical telescopes in the southern hemisphere, where this galaxy can be seen. | | | Radio waves from Centaurus A were among the first to be linked to an extragalactic object. | | | 1848-1949: Despite Herschel's observation, astronomers paid little attention to Centaurus A for about 100 years because they considered it another one of those nebulous, fuzzy objects originally thought to be in our own galaxy. |
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http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~hcs/Cen-A/cen-a-history.html
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| | Centaurus |
| | This allows you to customize your Centaurus to optimize it for your jumping style. | | | This innovation was one of the more significant improvements in the design of container systems and became a standard for the industry. | | | The Centaurus was the first container system to use a one pin reserve container, pioneering the use of a single fabric locking loop passed through the reserve container and pilot chute. |
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http://www.naaero.com/sport/centaurus.htm
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| | Centaurus Astronomical Society |
| | The Centaurus Newsletter is distributed in *.doc (Word97) Format to all members via email, or printed version by snail mail if requested. | | | Previous newsletters can be downloaded via the corresponding links at the bottom of this page. |
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| | Centaurus Capital - What We Do |
| | In order to establish an adequate comfort level for our investments, we develop a close and constructive ongoing dialogue with the senior executives of the companies we invest in, and focus on achieving an in-depth fundamental understanding of their businesses. | | | Centaurus Capital was launched in year 2000 and originated from an investment team working together at BNP Paribas since 1993. | | | In 2005, the Centaurus Alpha Fund was awarded the Hedge Funds Review European Performance Award in the category of Event Driven Fund. |
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http://www.centaurus-capital.com
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| | Stars and Constellations |
| | Centaurus contains over 100 visible stars (brighter than 5.5 magnitude). | | | Written by Pam Eastlick of the University of Guam. | | | Centaurus also has its very own meteor shower, the alpha Centaurids that are best on the eighth of February. |
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http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/Centaurus.html
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| | APOD: 2003 July 5 - Centaurus A: X-Rays from an Active Galaxy |
| | Astronomers were not disappointed, as Centaurus A's appearance in x-rays makes its classification as an | | | Centaurus A is also seen to be teeming with other individual x-ray sources and a pervasive, diffuse | | | Most of these individual sources are likely to be neutron stars or solar mass black holes accreting material from their less exotic binary companion stars. |
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030705.html
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| | SPACE.com -- Chandra Sees Stream of Energy Zooming From Nearby Galaxy |
| | They are clumped near the galactic center, and scientists suspect they are binary star system in which a | | | that come from Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128. | | | Also, some of the more than 200 other bright X-ray sources known to exist in Centaurus A can be seen in the new image. |
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/chandra_centaurus_jet_010807.html
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| | Dropzone Gear : Centaurus |
| | This allows you to customize your Centaurus to optimize it for your jumping style. | | | Centaurus is a state of the art container system that offers discipline specific options. | | | Naturally, as with all NAA products, the Centaurus is built to last. |
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http://www.dropzone.com/gear/Detailed/107.html
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| | Centaurus Overview |
| | Combining the proven technologies from the popular SDStationOEM and HDStationOEM boards, Centaurus® offers developers even more flexibility, power and reliability with up to 3 years warranty. | | | Of course the DVS Software Development Kit is shipped for free with Centaurus. | | | The board features ultra-hgih data throughput with PCI-X bus architecture. |
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http://www.dvs.de/english/products/oem/centaurus.html
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| | Image ssc2004-09a |
| | This website is maintained by the Spitzer Science Center, located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology and part of NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. | | | Spitzer's ability to see dust and also see through it allowed the telescope to peer into the center of Centaurus A and capture this galactic remnant as never before. | | | This image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows in unprecedented detail the galaxy Centaurus A's last big meal: a spiral galaxy seemingly twisted into a parallelogram-shaped structure of dust. |
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2004-09/ssc2004-09a.shtml
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| | Centaurus |
| | Click on alpha or any other orange-coloured object. | | | The brightest star in Centaurus, alpha, is really a combination of two very bright stars, with magnitudes 0.14 and 1.2. | | | Centaurus is a vast constellation, beginning well to the north and finishing very far to the south. |
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http://www.dibonsmith.com/cen.htm
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| | NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) |
| | Helmut Steinle's Centaurus A pages (MPE Garching): Information, images, references and more | | | UKS 32: The field of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A, landscape format) | | | UKS 32a: The field of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A, portrait format) - big image |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/n5128.html
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| | Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Britton, John P. "An Early Function for Eclipse Magnitudes in Babylonian Astronomy." Centaurus, 32 (1989): 32. | | | Aristotle acknowledged Thales as the first philosopher, and criticized his hypotheses in a scientific manner. | | | Britton, John P. "Scientific Astronomy in Pre-Seleucid Babylon." Chapter in H.D. Galter, Die Rolle der Astronomy in den Kulteren Mesopotamiens. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/t/thales.htm
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| | Centaurus |
| | Rigil Kentaurus, or Alpha Centauri, is the closest star system to our sun. | | | Written in the spirit of C. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Siegel has written an enchanting story of how ancient Britain and the fate of a race of benevolent centaurs on a planet near Alpha Centauri all become bound up with the choices of one little girl. | | | Centaurus is included in the ancient star catalogs of Eudoxos of Knidos, Aratos of Soli, and Ptolemy. |
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http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/exhibits/exhibit.php?exbgrp=3&exbid=20&exbpg=23
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| | Bristol Centaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Scaling up smaller designs to the high-point of engine performance is not an easy task. | | | The Centaurus, on the other hand, was considered to be very reliable right from 1942, once the initial bugs had been worked out. | | | Like most Bristol Engines designs, the Centaurus was based on the mechanicals of an earlier design, in this case the "classic" 5.75 in (146 mm) piston from their original 1918 Jupiter. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Centaurus
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| | Galaxy Centaurus A / NGC 5128 |
| | Up-to-date technical summaries on Centaurus A may be available at: NASA's ADS Abstract Service for the Astrophysics Data System; the SIMBAD Astronomical Database mirrored from CDS, which may require an account to access; and the NSF-funded, arXiv.org Physics e-Print archive's search interface. | | | For more information about the stars and other objects in this constellation, go to Christine Kronberg's Centaurus. | | | Centaurus A is not visible to Human eyes without the aid of a telescope. |
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http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/cent-a.htm
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| | About Centaurus |
| | Centaurus maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards regarding your nonpublic personal information to ensure we are complying with our own policy, industry practices, and federal regulations. | | | Centaurus does not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as required by law, and we do not sell your personal information to third parties. | | | Centaurus offers no proprietary products and does not maintain a "preferred" list of investment companies. |
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http://www.centaurusfinancial.com/cfi/disclosure.htm
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| | Constellation Centaurus |
| | According to Eratosthenes (Catasterism.40) Centaurus represents the centaur Chiron. | | | Musca, Crux, which is nearly embedded into Centaurus and Circinus at the south eastern border. | | | Centaurus is best known for its brightest star alpha Cen which is the second closest star to our sun. |
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| | Multiwavelength Centaurus A - Peculiar Galaxy |
| | NED technical data for NGC 5128 - Centaurus A | | | Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is a peculiar galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. | | | Astronomers believe the first jet is moving towards us, while the second is moving away. |
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http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/multiwavelength_astronomy/multiwavelength_museum/cenA.html
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| | Centaurus - Journal Information |
| | The journal was started in 1950 and has remained one of the major journals devoted to the study of the history of science. | | | Centaurus is an international journal of the history of science and its cultural aspects. | | | The Aim and Scope of Centaurus has been rewritten to include the history of science, medicine and technology and their social and cultural aspects. |
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| | Writer's Guide to the PR Universe - Centaurus Megazord |
| | Evil Centaurus raced in using the wheels on its feet for propulsion. | | | Megazords had remembered who they were and morphed their faces into benign, non-evil forms, Centaurus had green robot eyes and blue Rhino eyes. | | | As it would often do when arriving at a battle, Centaurus rolled up with a shoulder-ram to its opponent. |
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| | About Centaurus |
| | Recommendations were made based on what was best for the customer, free from the inherent conflicts of interest which arise when a company limits or focuses its range of available investments to in-house products. | | | Founded in 1992, Centaurus was created with the primary philosophy that its clients would best be served by having access to registered representatives with high professional and ethical standards whose recommendations were not affected by corporate pressure to offer “in-house” or proprietary products. | | | Centaurus Financial is a national independent broker/dealer licensed to offer securities and insurance products in all fifty states. |
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| | SPACE.com -- The Curious Case of Centaurus A |
| | After careful measurements, they determine that Centaurus A is in fact Herschels obscure little object, NGC 5128, which by now is known to be a galaxy, albeit one rather oddly shaped. | | | Not knowing what it is, the radio source becomes known as Centaurus A (the "A" indicating its the first radio source in Centaurus). | | | Such powerful jets have been spotted in some other galaxies as well, and their source is now well known: Such jets are the signature of a super-massive black hole in the center of the galaxy, a black hole with a mass millions of times greater than our sun. |
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/centaurus_curious_000501.html
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| | Constellation Centaurus |
| | It is unclear which centaur Centaurus is to represent. | | | Both centaurs are present in the stars, one as Centaurus and the other as Sagittarius. |
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http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/centaurus.html
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| | Centaurus A Galaxy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | The Centaurus A Galaxy (also known as Centaurus A, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | Centaurus A is part of the M83 Group M83 group of galaxies quick summary: | | | The m83 group of galaxies (also known as the ngc 5128 group or simply the m83 group) is a physical group and a galaxy cluster.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/ce/centaurus_a_galaxy.htm
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| | Centaurus girls fall to Mullen |
| | 3-point field goals — Mullen (9): Katich 4, O'Connell 3, Byrne, Hannon; Centaurus (2): S. Benner, Puckett. | | | Mullen (16-4), meanwhile, moves on to the district's final four and has automatically qualified for the state tournament. | | | Because only the top five finishers in the district advance to the state tournament, the Warriors (12-8) must win out to place fifth or else they are eliminated from the postseason. |
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http://www.bouldernews.com/sports/highschool/27schsg.shtml
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| | NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) |
| | The field of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A, landscape format) | | | The field of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A, portrait format) | | | One of the nearer galaxies, 13 million light years away, Centaurus A is the most powerful nearby radio source and is also a copious source of X- and gamma rays as well as visible and infrared radiation. |
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| | Bristol Centaurus |
| | The Centaurus was the ultimate piston engine developed by Bristol for use in World War II and the immediate post-war period. | | | First run in 1938 and type tested in 1939 at 2,000 hp, the importance of this engine wasn't recognized until 1943. |
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http://www.shanaberger.com/engines/Centaurus.htm
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| | Centaurus |
| | Many rituals are known to have involved dressing as one of these half-beasts, rituals which may date back to Neolithic times. | | | All files associated with The Constellations Web Page are | | | Centaurus is one of several constellations that deal with the Labours of Heracles. |
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http://www.dibonsmith.com/cen_con.htm
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| | Centaurus High School - Lafayette, Colorado |
| | Centaurus won both Regional games on Friday, defeating Montrose 9-0 in the 1st game and scoring 4 runs in the top of the 7th inning against Cheyenne Mountain to win the 2nd game 8-4. | | | Centaurus finishes the season 21-6, losing 5-2 to eventual State Champion Mullen in the State 4A Semi-Finals. | | | Centaurus Wins District 6 Championship, upsetting #1 ranked Pueblo South! |
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http://www.ladywarriors.org/CHS/CHS.htm
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| | Centaurus |
| | The Archer Sagittarius is also a centaur, but the constellation of Centaurus represents the leader of the centaur race, an individual known as Chiron. | | | They were a quarrelsome ill-bred race who loved to drink. |
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| | Centaurus Cluster |
| | Although it is possible to observe the Centaurus Cluster from northern California, as you can see from Steve's observing notes, my best view by far was at the Texas Star Party a few years back. | | | Located 26' N of n Centauri (V = 4.3) in the Centaurus cluster. | | | This is a large bright nearby (150 million light years) cluster that includes ten NGC galaxies within a one degree field. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/id/jsredshift/centaur.htm
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| | Centaurus Column |
| | The Centaurus Column was designed as a home theatre rear channel speaker. |
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http://www.apogeespeakers.com/centaur_column.htm
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| | Centaurus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | It is known especially for its bright stars Alpha Centauri and Hadar. | | | Centaurus reaches its highest point in the evening sky in May. | | | Magazines and Newspapers for: Centaurus or search in Pictures and Maps for Centaurus |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Centauru.asp
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| | Chandra :: Photo Album :: Centaurus A :: See It For Yourself |
| | The distance between Omega Centauri and Epsilon Centauri is the same distance as between Epsilon Centauris and Centaurus A. Or, connect the imaginary line between Omega Centauri and Iota Centauri and aim your telescope at the middle. | | | This site was developed with funding from NASA under Contract NAS8-39073. | | | To star-hop to this object, you can use Omega Centauri as a guide. |
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| | Centaurus A |
| | This color-composite CCD image (from B, V, and R-band frames obtained with the 1.5-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo) shows at once the reddening effects of dust in the strong dust lane, some red emission from ionized gas at the H-alpha line, and blue regions of star formation along the dust lane. | | | The peculiar radio galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) provides a striking example of how dust can affect our view of a galaxy, and how going to redder wavelengths helps penetrate interstellar dust. | | | This effect against stars in our own galaxy is known as interstellar reddening, though the effect in galaxies is complicated by the fact that some of the light is not in fact absorbed but scattered in different directions upon encountering a dust grain. |
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http://crux.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/cena.html
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| | Peoria Astronomical Society - Learning Topics-Centaurus (The Centaur) |
| | Centaurus, the Centaur is one of the largest constellations in the sky covering some 60 degrees. | | | There are several stories of centaurs in Greek mythology and it is generally thought that the constellation refers to Chiron, the king of the centaurs. | | | Will you participate in the Messier Marathon this year? |
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http://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=19
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| | The Scorpius Centaurus OB association |
| | The association is embedded in a large roughly circular structure; this is a huge bubble of hot gas created by the stellar winds of the numerous massive stars in the association and by several super-nova explosions, which happened in the Scorpius Centaurus association during the last few million years. | | | One can see a clear enhancement in the density of X-ray sources associated with these three subgroups of the association. | | | The yellow dots mark the positions of bright X-ray sources detected in the ROSAT All Sky Survey (note that we hav plotted only the about 10% brightest X-ray sources). |
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http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/tpreibis/scocen.html
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| | NGC5128 |
| | It acquired its alternative designation of Centaurus A precisely because it's the strongest radio source in Centaurus. | | | This galaxy is one of the most luminous and massive galaxies known and is a strong source of both radio and X-ray radiation. | | | NGC5128 is a type E0 peculiar elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. |
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http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0116.html
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| | Centaurus |
| | Kathy Miles, Author, and Chuck Peters, Systems Administrator | | | Centaurus is one of the brightest of the southern constellations. |
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http://starryskies.com/The_sky/constellations/centaurus.html
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| | eSky: Centaurus |
| | Centaurus contains much that is of interest, but is perhaps most famous for the stars Proxima and Alpha Centauri, the nearest stars to Earth's Solar System. | | | A rich and extensive constellation of the southern sky. |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/constellations/centaurus.html
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| | Centaurus A Galaxy |
| | Star clusters that make up the blue arc are likely strung out along the incoming trajectory of the small galaxy and are estimated to be only 200-400 million years old. | | | The 2,000 light-year long arc is revealed in the upper right corner of this processed color digital image, while the dense central region of Centaurus A is near the bottom. | | | Almost lost in this cosmic jumble of stars, gas and dust is a faint but definite blue arc -- a stream of young stars whose formation was probably triggered as a small dwarf galaxy was torn apart approaching the giant elliptical galaxy |
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http://www.skyimagelab.com/cengal.html
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| | HubbleSite - Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole - 5/14/1998 |
| | Such fireworks were common in the early universe, as galaxies formed and evolved, but are rare today. | | | The Hubble telescope offers a stunning unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of star birth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth. |
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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1998/14
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| | Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Centaurus |
| | NGC5128 (Bennett 60, Best 17, Caldwell 77) is also known as the radio source, Centaurus A. Strong radio emissions indicate something strange going on inside this galaxy, and the appearance bears this out. | | | While this brightening is true for larger telescopes, a 6" will show an evenly illuminated oval. | | | Some viewers call this the "Hamburger Galaxy," for the dark meat patty between two pieces of white bread effect, easily visible in a 6". |
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