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The striking spiral galaxy M104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting the more popular moniker, The Sombrero Galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based Subaru data have been reprocessed with amateur color image data to create this sharp view of the well-known galaxy. 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 instruments. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum and is thought to host a central supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster.
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🌌 迷人的螺旋星系 M104，以其近乎邊緣觀測的特徵而聞名。它擁有寬闊的塵埃環，形成明顯的輪廓，像是宇宙中的一頂寬邊帽，這也使得它更受歡迎的名字——The Sombrero Galaxy（草帽星系）。透過哈伯太空望遠鏡和地面 Subaru 數據的重新處理，加上業餘愛好者的色彩影像數據，為我們呈現出這個著名星系的清晰視圖。這樣的處理使顏色看起來更自然，並保留了許多在 M104 明亮的中央凸起強光中常常被遺失的細節。草帽星系亦被稱為 NGC 4594，能夠跨越光譜被觀察，並被認為擁有一個中央的超大質量黑洞。M104 大約有 50,000 光年寬，距離我們約 2800 萬光年，是處於處女座星系團南邊的最大星系之一。
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