Sombrero Galaxy (M104)

Sombrero Galaxy (M104) — galaxy, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Sombrero Galaxy (M104) in an interactive 3D view of space. See its catalogue position, distance and astronomical facts.

A glowing bulge of old stars brimmed by a knife-thin ring of dark dust — the unmistakable hat-shaped galaxy, seen almost perfectly edge-on.

Type

Edge-on spiral with vast bulge

Distance

31 million light-years

Halo

Wrapped in ~2,000 globular clusters

Explore Sombrero Galaxy (M104) in 3D

Sombrero Galaxy (M104) is placed in three-dimensional space using catalogue coordinates and an adopted astronomical distance. Rotate and zoom to explore the model. Stellar surfaces, gas structure and dust depths may be reconstructed or illustrative, as described in its facts; this is not live imagery from a telescope.