中文翻譯:
在無邊無際的星空中，有一個美麗的螺旋星系，叫做Messier 104。它因為幾乎被側面看到的樣子而著名，擁有一圈圈的塵埃，像是遮住星星的帽子。當我們從地球上看這個星系時，這片宇宙中的塵埃和星星，讓這個星系有了一種像草帽的外型，因此它有了另一個可愛的名字：Sombrero Galaxy！Sombrero Galaxy也叫NGC 4594，距離我們有2800萬光年，是處於維爾戈星系團中的一顆大星系，寬達五萬光年。這幅廣闊的圖片是由位於智利的Cerro Tololo國際天文台的暗能量相機（DECam）拍攝的，它顯示了Sombrero Galaxy周圍的星星以及微弱的潮汐恆星流。這些星星其實都在我們的銀河系裡哦！
原文:
A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting a more popular moniker, the Sombrero Galaxy. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum and is host to 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. Still, the spiky foreground stars in this field of view lie well within our own Milky Way. This broad view of the well-known galaxy was processed to reveal M104’s extended halo, as well as a faint tidal stellar stream. It was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
來源:NASA每日圖片
