A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, is an edge-on spiral visible with binoculars or a telescope in Virgo this evening.

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can expect a visually rich week from May 16 to 23, with deep-sky targets, ...

Look due south to find magnitude 1.0 alpha star Spica, “ear of wheat ... M90 and M104, the famed Sombrero Galaxy. Astronomers realized about 100 years ago that the Virgo Cluster and the ...

That distinctive look is what has made it aptly known as the "Sombrero Galaxy." The central bulge of the galaxy is densely packed with stars, and the disk is crowded with faint dust lanes ...

Listen to Story The galaxy is surprisingly quiet It is converting less than one solar mass of gas into new stars each year The Sombrero Galaxy has been extensively studied over the past two decades ...

Despite its brightness, the Sombrero Galaxy isn’t very busy. It forms only about one Sun’s worth of stars each year. Compared to the Milky Way, it is slightly larger but harder to study.

also known as the Sombrero Galaxy. This time around, using new processing techniques, the galaxy is revealed in greater detail with more background stars and galaxies. The Sombrero Galaxy is about 30 ...

It's that image that has now been reprocessed with new techniques, revealing more intricate details within the galaxy itself, and more stars faintly speckling the background. Although the Sombrero ...

Hubble provides a new, detailed view of the Sombrero Galaxy The Sombrero galaxy is found to have metal-rich stars The new imaging technique showcases the formation of its shape ...