Somewhere over the rainbow

 Somewhere over the rainbow :

In the southern edge of the galaxy-rich Virgo cluster, the Sombrero galaxy shines bright 28 million light-years from Earth in this composite view captured by @NASAHubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Hubble captured the galaxy in visible light, while Spitzer viewed it in infrared in four different microns: blue, green, orange, and red.⁣

The Sombrero galaxy is seen here nearly edge-on. The spiral galaxy is 50,000 light-years in diameter, around half the size of our Milky Way galaxy. At the Sombrero galaxy’s center, scientists estimate there is a black hole that is around a billion times more massive than our Sun.⁣

Image description:

 The left and right edges of the Sombrero galaxy appear red, the middle of the rings appear yellow-green, and the center of the galaxy appears light blue with a white core. Stars and galaxies appear dotted across the image.⁣

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)⁣

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                       27 September 2023