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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.