Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sombrero Galaxy...

AKA M104, and home of a large black hole.  When I was a kid, the best photos of M104 came from places like the Palomar telescope, and they were fuzzy, grainy, black-and-white images with a tiny fraction of the detail of this one.  I remember poring over those early images, fascinated, and wishing I could see something like that from a backyard telescope.  Now look what we can see, from our comfortable chairs!  From APOD, of course...

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