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The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared

Credit: R. Kennicutt (Steward Obs.) et al., SSC, JPL, Caltech, NASA

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The scope of this just amazes me. The sombrero galaxy is ~94,000 light years wide. Even if you could somehow manage to be in a position to see it "up close” (such a relative term here!) you’d be looking across 94,000 years of history all at once. I mean, I suppose we're doing that here as well.

The mind reels.

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