 Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panoramic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young blue star clusters, and it glimps into regions normally obscured by the dust. The warp to shape of Centaurus A's disk of gas and dust is evidence for a past collision and merger with another galaxy. The resulting shockwaves cause hydrogen gas clouds to compress, triggering a firestorm of new star formation. At a distance of over 11 million light-years, Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth. The center is home for a supermassive black hole that ejects jets of high-speed gas into space, but neither the supermassive black hole nor the jets are visible in this image. But they are in this one. This color-composite image of Centaurus A reveals the lobes and jets emanating from the galaxy's central black hole.