The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled ...

Each frame contains a bright globular cluster of stars, of which there are many in the galaxy's halo. The Sombrero's halo contained more metal-rich stars than expected, but even stranger was the ...

The detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons—carbon-based molecules often associated with star-forming regions—suggests potential for stellar activity, though the Sombrero galaxy remains ...