Photo galaxy dusty name ‘Little Sombrero’ caught in the lens of a space telescope Hubble.
The galaxy is elongated and thin with a bulge in the center, reminiscent of Mexico’s signature Sombrero.
Quoted from there the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the photo shows “the galaxy seen from the edge, a dazzling perspective showing a beautiful slice of the universe.”
This image of the Little Sombrero is a combination of observations and infrared captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2006.
NASA says the photo of the Little Sombrero, also known as NGC 7814 or Caldwell 43, has a speckled background that comes from a more remote galaxy.
The center is a bright bulge, with a thin disk filled with dust, and a halo of gas and stars that spreads out into space.
“The distance is approximately 40 million light years from Earth, 80,000 light years wide, and billions of years old,” the NASA website was quoted as saying.
The spiral galaxy emerged later after the discovery of the Sombrero galaxy, which looks bigger than it and resembles a large sombrero hat, in 2003. Although, in reality, the two galaxies are almost the same size, the Sombrero is closer to observers on Earth.
Seen from the edges, the Sombrero and Little Sombrero galaxies are ‘only’ 28 million light years away.
This image was chosen to celebrate Hubble’s five-year anniversary and is one of the largest mosaics ever collected from the space telescope’s data. Namely, created from six separate images to capture the full galaxy.
“The observations were made to assist astronomers in studying the galaxy’s stellar population, and to help explain the evolution of these galaxies,” NASA continued.
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