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Not only do we not get to live in Sombrereo Galaxy, but the life living in Sombrero Galaxy is completely unaware that they are in Sombrero Galaxy. They probably call it something super lame based on some dumb mythology

Nonsense. At a constant acceleration of 0.4g you can get there in about one human lifetime. 1g and you've got decades to spare.

new mario galaxy game lookin' awesome

Maybe we will be reincarnated as trisombreroans.

Sorry if their RGB is full blast and so it just appears “white.”

They use a method called stacking, at least the “amateurs” do. A real image in a backyard telescope is like a star with haze around it.

The current primary camera is the Wide Field Camera 3. This camera can operate in several modes.  It can use either fixed frequency filters, wide spectrum monochrome, or utilize a prism array to do either simple spectography of a single spot or imaging spectrography.

Yes, they typically rapidly take many images switching out the filter set, and adjusting various camera parameters, then they composite them using real-color algorithm w/ contrast and sharpness enhancement.

Surely it’s just a local star photobombing the galaxy…

Lens flare and/or camera element gausian flare. They process the image to eliminate the flares on the galaxy as accurately as possible.  This, as a result increases the flares on everything else.

It looks so perfectly shaped, like it hasnt been disturbed ever.

Neo-Mexico is real!

When you look at the Sombrero Galaxy the Sombrero Galaxy looks into you. Our sole purpose of existence is to determine the existence of the Sombrero Galaxy.

There clearly exists the best of all possible worlds, in the Sombrero Galaxy.

We don't even get to see it with our own eyes!  It is so distant we need a large telescope in an area with low light pollution to see it. To get a good picture you need a space telescope.

I too was overcome with existential futility when I first saw this image. That this beauty was out there in the universe, probably commonplace, and that we'd never get to experience it except though tiny images that are millennia out of date by the time they reach us

Don't fool yourselves Comrades, it's the same even in a Galaxy far, far away... Despair! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uQ...