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The Sombrero Galaxy is an edge-on spiral galaxy located some 28 million light years away toward the constellation Virgo. The Sombrero Galaxy is one of the most famous objects in the sky and is named because it resembles the broad-brimmed Mexican hat. Light from this spiral galaxy is dominated by billions of faint stars that form a vast ÒbulgeÓ around the relatively tiny nucleus of the galaxy. Dark lanes of dust running along the plane of the disk of the galaxy form the ÒbrimÓ of the hat.
Image courtesy of Space Telescope Science Institute. |
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