INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope just recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which reveals dust from
the galaxys outer ring obstructing stellar light from stars within the galaxy
In the main region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of numerous thousands of old stars held together by
gravity, radiance in the near-infrared
The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo
From Earth, we see this galaxy almost edge-on, or from the side.Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIRead More
