[HN Gopher] Hats Off to NASA's Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in ...
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       Hats Off to NASA's Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2024-11-26 18:05 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | OnlyMortal wrote:
       | I see what you did there :-)
        
         | Rygian wrote:
         | Spelled out for those who don't: 'sombrero' is Spanish for hat.
        
       | dvt wrote:
       | Probably personal taste, but I still like Hubble's image more,
       | really gives the disk some depth, as opposed to the flatter MIRI
       | image.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | Quick link to Hubble image:
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         | https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-...
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         | It is interesting seeing past the central portion to see the
         | complete rings on the back side. In the MIRI image, it looks
         | like a special FX shot from some scifi where the explosion
         | happens on a plane rather than a sphere.
        
           | shagie wrote:
           | There's also https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/
           | 2024/137/01J... which shows Spitzer, Webb, Hubble with
           | rotating images at the same image size.
        
             | dylan604 wrote:
             | i got nerd sniped and did the same thing myself. i could
             | not find a way to blend the two images together that did
             | anything interesting that the separate images did not do on
             | their own. looks like they came to the same conclusion.
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | All galaxies are just space explosions
        
         | dotancohen wrote:
         | No, they are not.
        
       | chasil wrote:
       | I looked up Triangulum on a lark, and learned:
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       | "Unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, the Triangulum
       | Galaxy does not appear to have a supermassive black hole at its
       | center. This may be because the mass of a galaxy's central
       | supermassive black hole correlates with the size of the galaxy's
       | central bulge, and unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda, the
       | Triangulum Galaxy is a pure disk galaxy with no bulge."
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       | Triangulum is a spiral galaxy in our local group, perhaps bound
       | to Andromeda or us.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | What was the impetus of you looking up Triangulum?
        
           | chasil wrote:
           | I was curious how much closer it was than the Sombrero (about
           | 10x).
        
       | underlipton wrote:
       | Just Wonderful. Though it looks a bit less like a sombrero this
       | time. Might need to think about changing the name.
        
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