Sombrero
Reprocessing some old but great Hubble data.
M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, looks like a flat disk with a soft halo of stars inside. The brown band of dust in the foreground of the disk is particularly striking.
This is about as close as one can get to a human visible light image. You'd never see it this bright with your own eyes, but if you could, it'd look about like this. I increased the saturation a fair amount to make it easier to see the colors, but most people will probably say it's not very colorful at all, which is fair enough.
Red: ACS/WFC F625W
Green: ACS/WFC F555W
Blue: ACS/WFC F435W
North is up.
Sombrero
Reprocessing some old but great Hubble data.
M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy, looks like a flat disk with a soft halo of stars inside. The brown band of dust in the foreground of the disk is particularly striking.
This is about as close as one can get to a human visible light image. You'd never see it this bright with your own eyes, but if you could, it'd look about like this. I increased the saturation a fair amount to make it easier to see the colors, but most people will probably say it's not very colorful at all, which is fair enough.
Red: ACS/WFC F625W
Green: ACS/WFC F555W
Blue: ACS/WFC F435W
North is up.