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Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby
Explanation:
Point your telescope toward the high flying constellation
Pegasus
and you can find this cosmic expanse of
Milky
Way stars and distant galaxies.
NGC 7814 is centered in the sharp
field of view that would almost
be covered by a full moon.
NGC 7814 is
sometimes called the
Little
Sombrero
for its resemblance to the brighter more famous M104,
the Sombrero Galaxy.
Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral galaxies
seen edge-on, and both have
extensive
halos
and central bulges cut by a thin disk with thinner dust lanes in silhouette.
In fact, NGC 7814
is some 40 million light-years away and an estimated 60,000 light-years
across.
That actually makes the
Little
Sombrero
about the same physical size as
its better known namesake, appearing smaller and fainter
only because it is farther away.
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