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Teaching tools > Pictures & facts > Overview: Sombrero Galaxy facts > Fast Facts: Sombrero Galaxy
| Name | Sombrero Galaxy, M104, NGC 4594 |
| Description | An edge-on spiral galaxy |
| Location | The galaxy is in the constellation Virgo in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| Distance from Earth |
28 million light-years |
| Size | 50,000 light-years across |
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The Sombrero Galaxy has 2,000 “globular
clusters,” compact groups of 100,000 to a million stars.
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Teaching tools > Pictures & facts > Overview: Sombrero Galaxy facts > Fast Facts: Sombrero Galaxy