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                                2019 March 29
                                      [2]
                          M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
         Image Data: NASA [3] , ESA [4] , Hubble Legacy Archive [5] ;
  Processing & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo [6] (DeepSkyColors.com [7] )

Explanation: The striking spiral galaxy M104 is famous [8] for its nearly
edge-on [9] profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in
silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic
dust [10]  lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting
a more popular moniker, The Sombrero Galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope data have
been used to to create [11] this sharp view of the well-known galaxy [12] .
The processing results in a natural color appearance and preserves details
often lost in overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge when viewed
with smaller ground-based telescopes. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero
galaxy can be seen across the spectrum [13]  and is host [14]  to a central
supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million
light-years away, M104 is [15]  one of the largest galaxies at the southern
edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster.

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