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                                  2025 January 23   
      
                             NGC 7814: Little Sombrero   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby   
      
      Explanation: Point your telescope toward the high flying constellation   
      Pegasus and you can find this cosmic expanse of Milky Way stars and   
      distant galaxies. NGC 7814 is centered in the sharp field of view that   
      would almost be covered by a full moon. NGC 7814 is sometimes called   
      the Little Sombrero for its resemblance to the brighter more famous   
      M104, the Sombrero Galaxy. Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral   
      galaxies seen edge-on, and both have extensive halos and central bulges   
      cut by a thin disk with thinner dust lanes in silhouette. In fact, NGC   
      7814 is some 40 million light-years away and an estimated 60,000   
      light-years across. That actually makes the Little Sombrero about the   
      same physical size as its better known namesake, appearing smaller and   
      fainter only because it is farther away.   
      
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