NASA’s Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope were used to capture this surreal image of the Sombrero Galaxy located 28 million light-years from Earth on the southern edge of the Virgo cluster. The former observed the galaxy in visible light, while Spitzer captured it in four different infrared microns: blue, green, orange, and red.
This surreal view of the Sombrero Galaxy can be seen here nearly edge-on, spanning 50,000 light-years in diameter, or approximately half the size of our Milky Way galaxy. The red sections depict the left and right edges of the Sombrero galaxy, and the center appears light blue with a white core, with stars as well as galaxies dotted across the image.
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At the Sombrero galaxy’s center, scientists estimate there is a black hole that is around a billion times more massive than our Sun.,” said NASA.
