https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2612a/
“Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero galaxy, is a popular target for amateur observing and astronomical research. Its recognizable extended halo and dust-filled disk are captured in this image from the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
See a close-up of the Sombrero Galaxy in the cropped version of this image here.”
The more familiar view from Hubble doesn’t show just how big the halo of this galaxy is, you can even see a stellar stream towards the bottom of this picture and what look like dwarf galaxies around the edges.
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