Published an image of "Sombrero galaxy" where NASA became clearer

thisM 104The spiral galaxy, which is one of the largest galaxies located at the southern end of the Virgo cluster, is thought to exist at a distance of about 50,000 light-years from the earth and 28 million light-years from the earth It is,SombreroBecause it resembles a broad hat with a brim called "Sombrero galaxyIt is called.

Various pictures have been taken and released, but on March 8, 2008 at local time NASA further reprocessed the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope so far, bright and blurred We released an image that made it clear that the central part of the sombrero galaxy that I did not understand was clearly visible. It has become quite clear and it is becoming clear that the whole picture of this gigantic galaxy is well understood.

Download the image from below.
APOD: 2008 March 8 - M104 Hubble Remix
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080308.html

Below is the image of the previous well-known sombrero galaxy. It certainly looks like the center part is different. It was published in 2003.

HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope (10/02/2003) - Release Images


The following page has an image of the same Sombrero galaxy published on January 21, 2007. The dust lane (dust band) where small dense gas particles gathered is different from the image this time and the differences such as bright and blurred parts in the center are also clearly understood.

APOD: 2007 January 21 - The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared


It seems that the procedure of reprocessing this time is almost the same as that explained on the following page.

PixInsight - Multiscale Processing with HDRWaveletTransform

In this way we call what we see from the side of the galaxy "Edgewon Galaxy", and the following page has an image of such Edgewon galaxies.

APOD: 2001 May 10 - Spirals On Edge