570MP DECam image unveils giant halo, star stream, and clues to ancient galactic collision.
The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped ...
This galaxy, also known as Messier 104, gets its nickname from its central bulge and outer dust trail, which give it a ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has a habit of showing familiar objects in a new light. With cameras sensitive to a broad range of infrared wavelengths, it can peer deep into celestial objects, ...
The Sombrero galaxy's name fits perfectly.
The Dark Energy Camera's image of Messier 104, the edge-on galaxy known as the Sombrero Galaxy.
The Sombrero galaxy and its glowing halo of stars have never looked this good. The latest photo of the popular hat-shaped ...
Like the Milky Way, Sombrero is a spiral galaxy. However, we see Sombrero edge-on from our vantage point from Earth, rather than the face-down perspective that is more familiar. Smithsonian ...
Day 19 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Sombrero Galaxy. First discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, the Sombrero Galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away, ...