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  2. Sombrero Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as Messier Object 104, M104 [4] or NGC 4594) is a peculiar galaxy of unclear classification [5] in the constellation borders of Virgo and Corvus, being about 9.55 megaparsecs (31.1 million light-years) [2] from the Milky Way galaxy.

  3. Webb telescope captures stunning new image of the "Sombrero ...

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    The Sombrero galaxy, named for its resemblance to the Mexican hat, is about 30 million light-years from Earth. ... including how far away they are from the Sombrero galaxy.

  4. List of nearest galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Most distant (difficult) naked eye object. Closest unbarred spiral galaxy to us and third largest galaxy in the Local Group. 61,100 ly 96 Andromeda XXI [66] dSph [53] 2.802 0.859 −9.9 Local Group: Satellite of Andromeda 97 Tucana Dwarf: dE5 2.87 0.88 [7] −9.16 15.7 [1] Local Group [7] Isolated group member — a 'primordial' galaxy [67] 98 ...

  5. File : Sombrero Galaxy in infrared light (Hubble Space ...

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    Spitzer's full view shows the disk is warped, which is often the result of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy, and clumpy areas spotted in the far edges of the ring indicate young star-forming regions. The Sombrero galaxy is located some 28 million light-years away. Viewed from Earth, it is just six degrees south of its equatorial plane.

  6. A galaxy named for its resemblance to a sombrero looks ...

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    But the Sombrero galaxy is quiet in terms of star formation compared with other galaxies such as Messier 82. Ten times as many stars are born in the latter galaxy than the estimated 100 billion ...

  7. List of the most distant astronomical objects - Wikipedia

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    This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. For comparisons with the light travel distance of the astronomical objects listed below, the age of the universe since the Big Bang is currently estimated as 13.787±0.020 Gyr.

  8. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. The following is a list of notable galaxies.. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe.

  9. Local Volume - Wikipedia

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    Among the member galaxies of the Local Volume, there are several large galaxies or particular galaxies such as Centaurus A, the Bode galaxy (M81), the Cigar galaxy (M82), the Circinus galaxy, the Southern Pinwheel galaxy (M83), the Pinwheel galaxy (M101), the Sombrero Galaxy (M104), NGC 1512, M51, M74, M66 and M96. [12]