Sombrero Galaxy

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4836.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4836. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Popular name for M104, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Virgo which is almost edge-on as seen from the Earth. The disk that surrounds its unusually large central bulge contains a very prominent lane of obscuring dust which, because the disk is tilted to the line of sight by a small angle (about 6°), cuts across the face of the bulge. These features cause the galaxy to look rather like a wi...

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