Sombrero Galaxy

50,000 LIGHT YEARS

Owing its name to the thick dust lanes encircling its white globular center, this huge galaxy is 28 million light years away from us. It has a mass equal to 800 billion Suns. If this were an actual sombrero, then our Sun would still only be as big as 1/lOOth of a hydrogen atom in that hat.

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