Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Tue Jan 01 2019 12:26:30 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 January 1 [2] The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared Image Credit: R. Kennicutt [3] (Steward Obs. [4] ) et al., SSC [5] , JPL [6] , Caltech [7] , NASA [8] 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 [9] , one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies [10] . The dark band of dust [11] that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy [12] in optical light actually glows brightly in infrared light. The featured image [13] , digitally sharpened, shows the infrared [14] glow, recently recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope [15] , superposed in false-color on an existing [16] image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope [17] in optical light. The Sombrero [18] Galaxy, also known as M104 [19] , spans about 50,000 light years [20] across and lies 28 million light years away. M104 [21] can be seen with a small telescope in the direction of the constellation Virgo [22] . Free Download: 2019 APOD Calendar (v5) [23] Tomorrow's picture: infrared hunter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [24] | Archive [25] | Submissions [26] | Index [27] | Search [28] | Calendar [29] | RSS [30] | Education [31] | About APOD [32] | Discuss [33] | > [34] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [35] (MTU [36] ) & Jerry Bonnell [37] (UMCP [38] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [39] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [40] A service of: ASD [41] at NASA [42] / GSFC [43] & Michigan Tech. U. [44] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/sombrero_spitzer_3000.jpg [3] http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~robk/ [4] http://www.as.arizona.edu/ [5] http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ [6] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ [7] http://www.caltech.edu/ [8] https://www.nasa.gov/ [9] http://messier.seds.org/m/m104.html [10] ap050213.html [11] ap030706.html [12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero_galaxy [13] http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/ 1419-ssc2005-11a-Spitzer-Spies-Spectacular-Sombrero [14] https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves [15] http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/mission/32-The-Mission [16] ap031008.html [17] ap021124.html [18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero [19] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBB2xQe8nMw [20] http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html [21] ap070505.html [22] http://maps.seds.org/Stars_en/Fig/virgo.html [23] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1812/ApodCalendar2019v5_Dave.pdf [24] ap181231.html [25] archivepix.html [26] lib/apsubmit2015.html [27] lib/aptree.html [28] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [29] calendar/allyears.html [30] /apod.rss [31] lib/edlinks.html [32] lib/about_apod.html [33] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190101 [34] ap190102.html [35] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [36] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [37] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [38] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [39] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [40] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [41] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [42] https://www.nasa.gov/ [43] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [44] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .