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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 07:27:17 JST Corey S Powell
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Zoom in, and the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a starry hat.
Switch to infrared vision (via JWST) and you can make most of the stars disappear, revealing the galaxy's unusually smooth, dusty ring -- less a hat than an enormous space Aerobie.
https://esawebb.org/news/weic2427/ #space #science #astronomy
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1. This image compares the view of the famous Sombrero Galaxy in mid-infrared light (bottom) and visible light (top). The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the smooth inner disk of the galaxy, while the Hubble Space Telescope’s visible light image shows the large and extended glow of the central bulge of stars. Both the Webb and Hubble images resolve the clumpy nature of the dust that makes up the Sombrero galaxy’s outer ring.
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  Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 07:27:18 JST Corey S Powell
  
  For your weekend enjoyment, here's a beautiful, expansive new view of the Sombrero Galaxy, courtesy of the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco Telescope in Chile.
  The galaxy's dark "brim" is a ring of dust and cold gas encircling a vast ball of stars.
  https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2612/ #space #science #nature
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  1. Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero galaxy, is a popular target for amateur observing and astronomical research. Its recognizable extended halo and dust-filled disk are captured in this image from the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
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    Sombrero Galaxy: The Universe’s Dusty Brimmed Hat Revealed Like Never Before - Dark Energy Camera spies the faint glowing features of Messier 104, known as the Sombrero Galaxy
    
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    Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero Galaxy, is a popular target for amateur observing and astronomical research. Its recognizable extended halo, as well as a faint stellar stream, are captured in exquisite detail in this image from the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
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