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English: This huge elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 (also known as Centaurus A) is the closest such galaxy to the Earth, at a distance of about 12 million light-years. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a new class of “dark” globular star clusters around this galaxy.
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Author ESO, ESA/Hubble, NASA. Digitized Sky Survey. Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin

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