{"id":418789,"date":"2026-04-26T18:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:09:21","slug":"sombrero-galaxy-the-universes-dusty-brimmed-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418789\/","title":{"rendered":"Sombrero Galaxy: The Universe\u2019s Dusty Brimmed Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messier 104, nicknamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sombrero_Galaxy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sombrero galaxy<\/a>, is a popular target for amateur observing and astronomical research. Its recognizable extended halo and dust-filled disk are captured in this image from the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (<a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/programs\/ctio\/victor-blanco-4m-telescope\/decam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DECam<\/a>) mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/programs\/ctio\/victor-blanco-4m-telescope\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">V\u00edctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope<\/a> at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (<a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/programs\/ctio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CTIO<\/a>) in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.<\/p>\n<p>See a close-up of the Sombrero Galaxy in the cropped version of this image <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/images\/noirlab2612b\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credit:<\/p>\n<p>CTIO\/NOIRLab\/DOE\/NSF\/AURA<br \/>Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage\/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin &amp; M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)<\/p>\n<p>About the ImageId:noirlab2612aType:ObservationRelease date:April 24, 2026, 8:27 a.m.Related releases:<a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/news\/noirlab2612\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noirlab2612<\/a>Size:14133 x 8960 pxAbout the Object<\/p>\n<p>CoordinatesObjectValuePosition (RA):12 40 0.54Position (Dec):-11&amp;deg 37&#8242; 33.39&#8243;Field of view:63.60 x 40.31 arcminutesOrientation:North is 180.0\u00b0 left of vertical<\/p>\n<p>View in WorldWide Telescope:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidetelescope.org\/wwtweb\/ShowImage.aspx?ra=190.002241706&amp;dec=-11.625940561&amp;x=640.0452840868888&amp;y=405.70013443713293&amp;scale=2.981214454691624&amp;rotation=0.0017473069900120208&amp;name=NGC+4594&amp;imageurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnoirlab.edu%2Fpublic%2Fmedia%2Farchives%2Fimages%2Fscreen%2Fnoirlab2612a.jpg&amp;thumb=http%3A%2F%2Fnoirlab.edu%2Fpublic%2Fmedia%2Farchives%2Fimages%2Fthumbs%2Fnoirlab2612a.jpg&amp;credits=&amp;creditsUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnoirlab.edu%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fnoirlab2612a%2F\" title=\"View in WorldWide Telescope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wwt.7bb7b26ba217.png\" alt=\"View in WorldWide Telescope\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero galaxy, is a popular target for amateur observing and astronomical research. Its recognizable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-418789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}