Archival Image of NGC 5408 by the Hubble Space Telescope (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Archival Image of NGC 5408 by the Hubble Space Telescope

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This archival image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the location of NGC 5408's unusually luminous X-ray source (circled). The irregular-type galaxy lies 15.8 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus.

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NASA/ESA/C. Lang, P. Kaaret, A. Mercer (Univ. of Iowa), and S. Corbel (Univ. of Paris)

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