Nearby Galaxy M104
wise_WISE2010-045C December 14th, 2010
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
M104 is also known as the Sombrero galaxy. Although M104 is classified as a spiral galaxy, it has a very different appearance than NGC 300. In part, this is because the dusty, star-forming spiral disk in M104 is seen nearly edge-on from our point of view. M104 also has a large, ball-shaped bulge component of older stars, seen here in blue. In visible light, a dark dust lane extends across the galaxy, blocking out some of the bright starlight in the disk behind it, and causing it to resemble a sombrero. This dust lane encircles the entire galaxy and glows brightly in infrared; it is seen here as bright circle surrounding a dense galactic core.
Provider: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Image Source: /image/wise/WISE2010-045C
Curator: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Berkeley, CA, USA
Image Use Policy: Pulic Domain
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Image Details
Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- WISE2010-045C
- Subject Category
- B.5.1.4. B.5.1.5.
- Subject Name
- Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104, M104, NGC 4594
- Credits
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
- Release Date
- 2010-12-14
- Lightyears
- 29,000,000
- Redshift
- 0.0034
- Reference Url
- /image/wise/WISE2010-045C
- Type
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WISE, WISE, WISE, WISE
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Green, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, Near-IR, Mid-IR, Mid-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 3400, 4600, 12000, 22000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 189.9973991, -11.6232199
- Reference Dimension
- 1092.0, 1092.0
- Reference Pixel
- 547.0, 547.0
- Scale
- 0.000381494, 0.00038149357
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
- URL
- http://wise.astro.ucla.edu
- Name
- outreach@ssl.berkeley.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 7 Gauss Way
- City
- Berkeley
- State/Province
- CA
- Postal Code
- 94720
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Pulic Domain
- Publisher
- Publisher ID
- wise
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- /image/wise/WISE2010-045C
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-08-05
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
