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The Sombrero galaxy as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
January 29, 2021

Sombrero Galaxy

After having a new camera installed in 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this picture of a galaxy nicknamed Sombrero. It's a third of the size of the Milky Way galaxy, and brighter than 400 billion suns.
Photograph by NASA, Nat Geo Image Collection
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