Looking ahead to the future NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope 35th Anniversary released by the Hubble team Beautiful new image The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as the Messier 104.
This Hubble image shows Messier 104, a galaxy 28 million light years away in the Virgo constellation. Image credits: NASA/ESA/Hubble/K. Noll.
Messier 104 It is about 28 million light years away from the Virgo constellations.
Also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, M104 or NGC 4594, this galaxy is I discovered it May 11, 1781, by French astronomer Pierre Mechine.
It has a diameter of approximately 49,000 light years. This is about three times the Milky Way galaxy.
The Messier 104 has a very large central bulge, hosting an ultra-high Massive black hole.
At a 6-degree angle south of the plane, you can see the Galaxy Edge-On. That dark Dustlane dominates the scenery.
Over the past 20 years, Hubble has released several images of the Messier 104. This well-known image Since October 2003.
“It’s packed with stars, but the Sombrero galaxy is surprisingly not a hotbed of star formation,” Hubble astronomers said in a statement.
“Less than one solar mass gas is converted into a star in a dusty disk with a fading knot.”
“At the 9 billion solar mass, even the central, ultra-huge black holes in a large galaxy, more than 2,000 times the central black holes in the Milky Way, are pretty calm.”
“The galaxy is not too faint to find with sincerity, but it is easily viewed with a modest amateur telescope.”
“From Earth’s perspective, galaxies are about a third of the diameter of a full moon.”
“The galaxy in the sky is too large to fit in Hubble’s narrow field of view, so this image is actually a mosaic of several images sewn together.”
“One of the things that make this galaxy particularly noteworthy is its viewing angle, tilting just six degrees away from the galaxy’s equator.”
“From this perspective, the complex clumps and shattering chains stand out in the nucleus and bulge of the bright white galaxy, unlike Saturn and its rings, produce an effect on the scale of the epic galaxy.”
“At the same time, this extreme angle makes it difficult to identify the structure of the Sombrero galaxy,” they said.
“It’s not clear if it’s a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way or an elliptical galaxy.”
“Unbelievably, galaxy disks look like fairly typical discs of spiral galaxies. The spheroid bulge and halos look quite typical in oval galaxies, but the combination of the two components is neither a spiral nor an elliptical galaxy.”
Source: www.sci.news
