| Hubble Space Telescope ( @ 2004-03-26 13:02:00 |
The Sombrero Galaxy
The news seems full of efforts to save me, which I love reading, but figure there's only so many nearly identical articles that I can really post, so I've decided to dig back into my archive again until the next public release.
The Hubble Heritage Project, a swell group of professional and amateur astronomers hoping to keep up public interest in me celebrated their fifth anniversary in October of 2003. During that period, they've released an image a month, either previously unreleased images that are no longer exclusive property or their own observations. To celebrate, they made public perhaps the largest mosaic jobs I've ever been asked to do, cobbled from images they took in .
The resulting image is of M104 which is more frequently called the Sombrero Galaxy. It's unique mostly because of the almost pure edge-on view from our point of view here on earth (or, in my case 600km straight up from earth). This is a galaxy that has been studied since the 1800s, and provided one of the first proofs of an expanding universe when viewed by V. M. Slipher in 1912.
If you'd like to learn more about any of this, here are some links:
Hubble Heritage Project Homepage
HubbleSite write-up on the HHP's anniversary
More information about M104, including full sized images.
The news seems full of efforts to save me, which I love reading, but figure there's only so many nearly identical articles that I can really post, so I've decided to dig back into my archive again until the next public release.
The Hubble Heritage Project, a swell group of professional and amateur astronomers hoping to keep up public interest in me celebrated their fifth anniversary in October of 2003. During that period, they've released an image a month, either previously unreleased images that are no longer exclusive property or their own observations. To celebrate, they made public perhaps the largest mosaic jobs I've ever been asked to do, cobbled from images they took in .
The resulting image is of M104 which is more frequently called the Sombrero Galaxy. It's unique mostly because of the almost pure edge-on view from our point of view here on earth (or, in my case 600km straight up from earth). This is a galaxy that has been studied since the 1800s, and provided one of the first proofs of an expanding universe when viewed by V. M. Slipher in 1912.
If you'd like to learn more about any of this, here are some links:
Hubble Heritage Project Homepage
HubbleSite write-up on the HHP's anniversary
More information about M104, including full sized images.