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Just weeks after NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory began operations in 1999, the telescope pointed at Centaurus A (Cen A, for short). This galaxy, at a distance of about 12 million light years from Earth, contains a gargantuan jet blasting away from a central supermassive black hole. New processing techniques are providing astronomers with a new look at this old galactic friend. The data are combined from observations equivalent to over nine and a half days worth of observing time taken between 1999 and 2012. In these images, the lowest-energy X-rays Chandra detects are in red, while the medium-energy X-rays are green, and the highest-energy ones are blue. Archived data also allow for ongoing scientific studies, including new results on the black holes and neutron stars in Centaurus A. Release date February 6, 2014.