The Billion-Year-Old Sombrero Galaxy (Source: NASA)
JAKARTA, kilat.com- Telescope NASA’s Hubble Space has captured some stunning space images over the years. It has been in operation since the 1990s and since then, has allowed astronomers to view galaxies of all shapes and sizes from almost every angle.
One of the pictures amazing captured by one of the larger observatories shared by NASA regarding the Sombrero Galaxy, which is approximately 40 million light years from Earth.
In a remote galaxy backdrop, the Sombrero, also known as the ‘Little Sombrero’, ‘NGC 7814’ or ‘Caldwell 43’, features a bright central bulge, a thin disk of dust, and halos of gas and stars.
In its blog post, NASA stated that several years ago the ‘Sombrero’ galaxy, which is billions of years old, had a bright central bulge and a halo of gas extending out into space.
The dusty spiral arms that appear in the ‘Sombrero’ Galaxy are made of dusty material that absorbs light from the galactic center.
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This galaxy is named the Sombrero because of its shape which resembles a Mexican hat. The Sombrero is located on the southern edge of the rich Virgo galaxy cluster.
In the 19th century, some astronomers speculated that galaxies were simply disks of glowing gas surrounding young stars, which were the prototypical origin of our solar system.
But in 1912, astronomer VM Slipher discovered that the hat-like object appeared to be shooting away from us at 700 miles per second.
This incredible speed offers some of the earliest clues that the Sombrero really is another galaxy, and that the universe is expanding in all directions. (nda/cen)
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