Monday, July 2, 2012

UFO ? Astrophoto: Incredible Deep View of Globular Clusters Swarming the Sombrero Galaxy

UFO ? Astrophoto: Incredible Deep View of Globular Clusters Swarming the Sombrero Galaxy:

The Sombrero Galaxy and a Swarm of Globular Clusters. Credit: Rolf Wahl Olsen
You may recall in 2011 we featured an astrophoto by Rolf Wahl Olsen from New Zealand, who took the first amateur image of another solar system, Beta Pictoris. Olsen wrote to tell us he now has a new and better camera and recently focused on a new target with some incredible results.
“This time I have taken a very deep image of the famous Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104) showing 136 globular clusters around it,” Olsen said via email. “I have seen a few images before of the Sombrero with a couple of globular clusters identified, but not to this extent. It is really quite dramatic to be able to see how they literally swarm around the galaxy.”


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