This week’s naked-eye object is an optical double star in Ursa Major. At the bend of the Big Dipper’s handle, you’ll find magnitude 2.4 Mizar (Zeta [ζ] Ursae Majoris) and magnitude 4.0 Alcor (80 Ursae ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the Sombrero galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). (NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI via SWNS) By Dean Murray Space scientists have captured a startling new image ...

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This week Hal tells us about M104, otherwise known as the Sombrero Galaxy. Regular listeners to Looking Up may recall my earlier comments regarding objects in the night sky that make you say Wow.

Credit: NASA/ESA Spring is almost here, which means it's galaxy season for amateur astronomers! Grab your telescope and join ...

A new image of the Sombrero galaxy from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has astronomers taking their hats off in place of a cosmic bullseye. The galaxy, known as Messier 104 (M104), was discovered ...

This is the Sombrero Galaxy (also known as M104 or NGC 4594), it is an unbarred spiral galaxy found in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy itself, which we are viewing almost perfectly edge-on, is ...