2026-04-26 22:17 UTC
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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@coreyspowell@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 22:18
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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@tsturm@famichiki.jp 2026-04-26 22:19
@coreyspowell It's hard to visually comprehend - the glowing halo all around the galaxy is all stars, right?