Sombrero galaxy’s true size revealed: what astronomers discovered will shock you – Futura-Sciences
May 30, 2026
3 min
Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero Galaxy, is a favorite target of amateur astronomers and researchers. Its characteristic extended halo and dust disk are visible in this image taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), built by the U.S. Department of Energy and installed on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, an NSF NOIRLab program. © CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA. Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin and M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
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