M 104 NGC 4594 Sombrero Galaxy

Capture

Seestar s50 243 stacks

Date

11 July 2026

Location

Camden, NSW

Original

1870 × 3032 px

M 104 NGC 4594 Sombrero Galaxy is a galaxy in the constellation borders of Virgo and Corvus and is approximately 30 million light-years from Earth. It spans an impressive 50,000 light-years across, This luminous and massive galaxy has a total mass of about 800 billion suns. It has a large central bulge, encircled by thick dust lanes. This dust lane is the site of star formation in the galaxy. M 104 is estimated to contain nearly 2000 globular clusters whose ages range from 10-13 billion years. It is not visible to the naked eye, Apparent magnitude 8.0.

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