Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Fri Mar 29 2019 10:25:25 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 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. Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [16] | Archive [17] | Submissions [18] | Index [19] | Search [20] | Calendar [21] | RSS [22] | Education [23] | About APOD [24] | Discuss [25] | > [26] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [27] (MTU [28] ) & Jerry Bonnell [29] (UMCP [30] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [31] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [32] A service of: ASD [33] at NASA [34] / GSFC [35] & Michigan Tech. U. [36] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1903/M104_Hubble_rba.jpg [3] https://www.nasa.gov/ [4] https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA [5] https://hla.stsci.edu/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Bernal_Andreo [7] http://www.deepskycolors.com/ [8] http://messier.seds.org/m/m104.html [9] ap010510.html [10] ap190101.html [11] https://www.facebook.com/DeepSkyColors/photos/ pb.511507152249936.-2207520000.1553721359./ 2190123281054973/?type=3&theater [12] https://www.facebook.com/DeepSkyColors/photos/ a.511542708913047/2163484303718871/?type=3&theater [13] ap070505.html [14] https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1238 [15] https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30855 [16] ap190328.html [17] archivepix.html [18] lib/apsubmit2015.html [19] lib/aptree.html [20] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [21] calendar/allyears.html [22] /apod.rss [23] lib/edlinks.html [24] lib/about_apod.html [25] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190329 [26] ap190330.html [27] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [29] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [30] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [31] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [32] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [33] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [34] https://www.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [36] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .