This is M104 and it is The Sombrero Galaxy, it is named that because it resembles a sombrero. M104 is right after M103, which is in the constellation Cassiopeia. M104 is famous for its edge, it features a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Because of its overwhelming glare, some of the color coding couldn't color the image. This galaxy is in every spectrum: Radio, Infrared, Visible Light, Ultra-Violet, X-Ray, and Gama rays. It is speculated to hold a super massive black hole. This black is around 50,000 light years across and 28 million light years away. It is also one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy luster.
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