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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2022 April 23   
      
                                    Messier 104   
                  Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive;   
                   Processing & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo   
      
      Explanation: 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. This   
      sharp view of the well-known galaxy was made from over 10 hours of   
      Hubble Space Telescope image data, processed to bring out faint details   
      often lost in the overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge.   
      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.   
      
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