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At least two methods have been used to measure the distance to the Sombrero Galaxy. The first method relies on comparing the measured fluxes from the galaxy's planetary nebulae to the known luminosity of planetary nebulae in the Milky Way. This method gave the distance to the Sombrero Galaxy as 29 ± 2 Mly (8,890 ± 610 kpc). [28]
This is a list of known galaxies within 3.8 megaparsecs (12.4 million light-years) of the Solar System, in ascending order of heliocentric distance, or the distance to the Sun. This encompasses about 50 major Local Group galaxies, and some that are members of neighboring galaxy groups , the M81 Group and the Centaurus A/M83 Group , and some ...
The Sombrero Galaxy is a spiral galaxy ... M104 is moving away from Earth at about 1,000 kilometers per ... the mean time for the spacecraft to come within 30 ...
The Sombrero galaxy, named for its resemblance to the Mexican hat, is about 30 million light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release. The galaxy is surrounded by multiple rings, where stars ...
380 Earth radii (very inaccurate, true=16000 Earth radii) Aristarchus of Samos made a measurement of the distance of the Sun from the Earth in relation to the distance of the Moon from the Earth. The distance to the Moon was described in Earth radii (20, also inaccurate). The diameter of the Earth had been calculated previously.
The galaxy — also known as Messier 104, or M104 — is about 30 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation. French astronomer and comet hunter Pierre Méchain discovered it in 1781.
Sombrero Galaxy: 1 × 10 9 [77] Bolometrically most luminous galaxy in the local universe and also the nearest billion-solar-mass black hole to Earth. Markarian 501: 9 × 10 8 – 3.4 × 10 9 [78] Brightest object in the sky in very high energy gamma rays. PG 1426+015 (1.298 ± 0.385) × 10 9 [4] 467 740 000 [5] 3C 273 (8.86 ± 1.87) × 10 8 [4 ...
An illustration depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012.