This is an old favourite infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope & NASA. I love the Sombrero Galaxy (M104); it’s so floaty-looking at these enormous distances that I like to imagine the texture of it close up.
Not very close, obviously, or I’d be inside it. And there’s a black hole in there and all sorts of cool stuff.
You can see more images at the NASA website.
And you can see more of the Sombrero Galaxy in the sky: look towards Virgo through a reasonable sized telescope.
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