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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared
NASA ^ | October 04, 2015 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 10/04/2015 2:46:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Explanation: This floating ring is the size of a galaxy. In fact, it is a galaxy -- or at least part of one: the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in optical light actually glows brightly in infrared light. The above image, digitally sharpened, shows the infrared glow, recently recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, superposed in false-color on an existing image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in optical light. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as M104, spans about 50,000 light years across and lies 28 million light years away. M104 can be seen with a small telescope in the direction of the constellation Virgo.

October 04, 2015

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; science; sombrerogalaxy
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks to me like a galactic Frisbee.


21 posted on 10/04/2015 10:48:56 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: SunkenCiv

22 posted on 10/05/2015 6:07:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Aerobie..............see next post.............


23 posted on 10/05/2015 6:07:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

There's also a Weatherbee Galaxy -- although Mr. Weatherbee gave up astronomy to become the principal at Riverdale. Turns out he's a Pisces.
Weatherbee Galaxy

24 posted on 10/05/2015 11:33:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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