Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 7814: Little Sombrero

NASA ^ | 23 Jan, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Point your telescope toward the high flying constellation Pegasus and you can find this cosmic expanse of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies. NGC 7814 is centered in the sharp field of view that would almost be covered by a full moon. NGC 7814 is sometimes called the Little Sombrero for its resemblance to the brighter more famous M104, the Sombrero Galaxy. Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral galaxies seen edge-on, and both have extensive halos and central bulges cut by a thin disk with thinner dust lanes in silhouette. In fact, NGC 7814 is some 40 million light-years away and an estimated 60,000 light-years across. That actually makes the Little Sombrero about the same physical size as its better known namesake, appearing smaller and fainter only because it is farther away.

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[LittleBillyInfidel]

The Little Sombrero is also known for its fantastic tacos.

[Larry Lucido]

How about the Urban Sombrero?

[Red Badger]

Looks like a clam......................

[No name given]

Wow.

[Magnum44]

[gundog]

Jerry: "Anything you couldn't have gotten sitting at home, tearing open a bag of Doritos and watching Viva Zapata?"

Elaine: "You don't respect my work at all, do you?"

Jerry:"No, I don't."

[telescope115]

It always gobsmacks me as to how many stars are in a galaxy. So many, and so far away that they’re only seen by us as a faint glow. And if one looks closely enough at the photo with a magnifier, many more galaxies just like this one are seen, much much further away.

[sit-rep]

thats racist!!!

[BlackbirdSST]

And if one looks closely enough at the photo with a magnifier, many more galaxies just like this one are seen, much much further away.

Pick the faintest one, travel to it, I'm guessing you will see a similar picture.

[Omnivore-Dan]

“Billions and billions” - Carl Sagan. ....We are miniscule.

[doorgunner69]

Just try and imagine what lives there, that we will never know about.

And vice versa of course.

[Conan the Librarian]

Doesn’t really look that way in my telescope.

It’s a Caldwell object and I DID see it, but, nothing like that.

[telescope115]

Very, very true!