NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy using its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), also known as Messier 104, located 28 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
What makes this new image different from those taken by Hubble and Spitzer is that Webb’s MIRI detects carbon-containing molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. This can indicate the presence of young star-forming regions, but unfortunately, the Sombrero galaxy is not a particular hotbed of star formation. Why? The Sombrero galaxy’s rings produce less than one solar mass of stars per year, in comparison to the Milky Way’s roughly two solar masses a year.
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Also within the Sombrero galaxy dwell some 2,000 globular clusters, collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity. This type of system serves as a pseudo laboratory for astronomers to study stars — thousands of stars within one system with the same age, but varying masses and other properties is an intriguing opportunity for comparison studies,” said the NASA Webb Mission Team.
