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A grayscale image of a flat disc of a galaxy. It's been manipulated to vastly increase the contrast and make hard-to-see features easier to see. The most prominent detail is the dark brim of dust which famously accounts for the galaxy's name of Sombrero. X-shaped shadows emanate from the nucleus of the galaxy. There are diagonal instrumental artifacts running almost vertically across the image that one must try to ignore. Many globular clusters appearing as small dots surround the galaxy in a spherical halo. Background galaxies dot the image throughout. A few bright foreground stars are discernable due to the distinct four spikes symmetrically surrounding them in cardinal directions.

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    Judy Schmidt (spacegeck@astrodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 17:00:00 JST Judy Schmidt Judy Schmidt

    Found something cool in the Sombrero Galaxy (M104) while trying to peek at the dusty features in its bright core. I think it's got big shadows / crepuscular ray features like the ones I found in IC 5063 (https://flic.kr/p/2mjGRVZ) but they're much fainter. I mean, they'd have to be hard to see given that it's such a well-studied galaxy.

    In conversation about 4 months ago from astrodon.social permalink
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