Panel A: RGB composite image of Cen A. Red shows the 5.8 μm emission from Cen A as observed by Spitzer/IRAC (Quillen et al. 2006b,a); green corresponds to X-ray emission observed with Chandra/ACIS (Hardcastle et al. 2007); and blue traces the radio-jet structure imaged with the VLA (Hardcastle et al. 2003). In black we show the footprint of MIRI-MRS observations. Panel B: Zoomed-in view of the central few hundred parsecs of Cen A, showing cold molecular gas traced by CO(6–5) and CO(3–2) in blue and green and the VLT/SINFONI H₂ 1-0 S(1) intensity map by Neumayer et al. (2007) in red (adapted from Espada et al. 2017). White rectangles mark the each MIRI-MRS mosaic (1 × 2 FoV). North is up and east is to the left.