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The Sombrero Galaxy is too faint to see with the naked eye but easily visible through a modest amateur telescope, appearing ...
What it is: The Sombrero Galaxy (M104), a peculiar galaxy. Where it is: 30 million light-years distant between the Virgo and Corvus constellations. When it was shared: June 3, 2025.
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104), seen in this Hubble Space Telescope composite image, lies at the southern edge of a galaxy-rich cluster in Constellation Virgo and is one of the most massive objects in ...
The Sombrero Galaxy is instantly recognisable for its hat-like shape (Image: ESA/Hubble/NASA) Also known as M104, the galaxy has been described by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a "fan favourite".
M104, nicknamed the Sombrero Galaxy, is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. M104 creates stars surprisingly slowly and is home to a mysteriously quiescent central ...
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It is called "the little sombrero" because it resembles the brighter and more famous Sombrero Galaxy (M104). A sombrero is a wide-brimmed Mexican hat.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, revealing a perspective that looks quite different from the wide-brimmed ...
This stunning Hubble image of M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, is one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble observations. Complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in ...
The Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 or M104, is situated about 30 million light-years from the Earth in the Virgo constellation. It was discovered in 1781 by French astronomer Pierre ...
The galaxy — also known as Messier 104, or M104 — is about 30 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation. French astronomer and comet hunter Pierre Méchain discovered it in 1781.
It’s called Messier 104 (M104), but is more commonly called the Sombrero galaxy because of its resemblance to the broad-rimmed Mexican hat. Though, in Webb’s newer, sharper photo, the galaxy ...