THE SOMBRERO GALAXY     How to see these images in 3D Left-side right-side asymmetry in the real alignment of galaxy rims (disks) is examined, which leads to a greater outlook on galactic asymmetries Studies of the Sombrero elliptical galaxy (M104), reveal the following P.S. what happens when a giant elliptical galaxy is brushed by another galaxy. It is cleaved, like soft cheese, or fluffy souffle. See the 'Dusting Galaxies' THE SOMBRERO GALAXY (ESO ORIGINAL IMAGE) See this image at full resolution (4 meg)

BI-POLAR DISK SYMMETRY IN GALAXIES

If
the Sombrero
galaxy is spun with the
left side coming around forward to the
right by about 30 degrees it is highly likely that a
vividly pronounced asymmetry would come into view, a higher
vertical rise in the planar aspect of the galaxy's rim on the
left side, and a more pronounced horizontal planar aspect
on the right side, in companion to the more immediately
witnessed rim asymmetry seen in galaxy NGC 4526.
At the moment, with the Sombrero view we have
visible, the polar plane asymmetry
of the rim of the Sombrero
is partially
obscured
on the left
side, any greater
vertical height of the rim
hidden behind a pall of dust

THE SOMBRERO GALAXY IN COLOR

Strong
color enhancements
in keeping with the different
colors originally photographed to composite
a colored image, throw light on different salient
features of the Sombrero galaxy, the features
further made salient by combining the
different color enhancements
in 3D views, all of
this effort
intending
to work around
a major problem - that
the image is v e r r r y hazy

Original (official 'reduced' version), and enhanced views







A maximized
look at the halo
reveals the above giant
superstructure. There are density
zones in arced bands in the upper hemsphere.
Perhaps such zones occur in the lower half of the halo,
but these (in this image) if they exist, seem masked
by foreground brightness in the haze

Image A - original orientation



In 3D
at just above
subliminal levels, the
above maximum enhancement
lets us see that the disk is not perfectly
circular (as you might instead expect from a view
of the images in ordinary 2 dimensional (mono) aspect).
Here, as seen above, the left side disk perimeter projects in
a buldge toward the camera, the right side disk perimeter moves
away from the camera toward rearspace. A fancy swimming pool
with two ovals comes to mind to model an image. Another
is to join a pair of commas tail to tail at mid disk,
the left comma head down tail at the top to
the right, the right comma head up the
tail at the top to the left to join
the tail of the other comma. It
is also seen that the lower
half is closer to the
camera, the upper
half slopes
rearward

Image B - flipped, plus rotated 180 degrees reverses the disk orientation so that left side is now the right side



MORE ON THE SOMBRERO GALAXY

Ornate
subliminals
in the halo above
the core indicate major
dynamics in action, with a sense of
vertical forces directly above the core possible.
In this view (with the haze drastically reduced),
arced density zones can be seen in
the lower half





In
this
next large
left side view a
strong sweep of diffuse
matter can be seen in 3D extending
slightly foward toward the camera in the lower
right of the image. It means the diffuse halo matter is
more in the form of a broad band drifting along in
deep space rather than perfectly round



NEXT

The
vertical
rise in the left rim
is detailed and magnified







From
the original
(a magnification of the
right rim), a series since right rim
details seem blurrier, which is to be expected if
correct that the halo is an oblong leaning
into forespace on the right













In these next
views
we
are
pushing
the hilt on maximum
magnification and clarity given
the resolution quality of the original image,
however it can be seen that small bright globular
clusters inhabit the rim and its upper layer, and
that horizontal slices are scything out
from the edge of the rim, some
are radiating through
from behind







NEXT

Here
are two earlier
images of the Sombrero
Galaxy. One very dark and white
is so sharply contrasted by astronomers
it shows only a large ovalar buldge, and a thin
rim around. The other (red) is a clearer view in which
some of the rim features as seen more detailed in the
above images, can be glimpsed but little
understood due to the compelling
nature of the overpowering
red haze in the image

Original (left) and enhancement (right)



One
event
of interest in
the above eerie image, is
it shows is a seeming slight glow
of extra matter off the right side of the
core. If imagination is allowed to run with it,
the pluff extending back over the core buldge
from the foreward right to the left rear,
a kind of curly coil seems to be here.
This pluff is not supported (seen)
in the larger Sombrero images
shown further above. The
show is supported
in a right side
magification
of the core
taken from an
earlier (red) image
of the Sombrero galaxy

Center magnification from the original











The
last two
images above show
most clearly a thin line of
density running in a long arc from the
lower right up high over behind the core buldge
and around again partially forward on the opposite
(left) side of the core. Dynamic shapes in the core
itself are glimpsed in the above images,
as seen in detail here

In
the above
sequence of image
the fact that the galaxy
is askew is very apparent. The main
throughput of the galaxy is a horizontal plane
on the right side of the frame extending backward from
the right side foreground on a lateral vector toward
the rear north east, with the core buldge itself
(with small bright core bole itself at center)
rising abruptly up along the cant of the
lateral vector. The large full
colored images further
above, and the
core central
images, all
seem biased
toward portraying
a galaxy that is essentially
globular, oblong, and symmetrical. The
above (red) sequence of images well supports oblong
assumption, showing that the galaxy is strongly skewed the
fact of the skew obscured by haze until the haze is
removed to reveal glimpses of the Sombrero
galaxy's skewed property dynamics

AN EXAMPLE

A broad
swath sweeping
up and over from a core
is not at all uncommon. Next in an
Andromeda image, a diffuse broad swath is
unmistakably see up and away lifting from the
core region and sweeping around behind as
an amorphous form of arm. This next
Andromeda image is a conspiracy,
shamelessly enhanced most
dim substance has
turned solid



Original



An odd thatch pattern overcomes the image when it is displayed below a certain size, as seen in this enhanced next view



SUMMARY

1.   Torque asymmetry - asymmetry at the center - left side shelfs
down below a core finger - the right side core finger rises up over
the right side shelf (seen in enhanced black and white views) 

2.   Symmetric sickle cell shape in the disk 

3.   Asymmetric skew - the bulk canted along a
north/west vector - the cant moving behind and above
the main bright inner core 

4.   Asymmetry in the halo itself - the lower portion
slanting slightly toward the camera the greatest slant in
the lower south east portion, which is consistent with the
skewed cant cited in topic (3.) above 

5.   Asymmetry in the rim - vertical elevation on the left
side of the disk - horizontal plane on the right side 

6.   Vertically choppy chaotic matter in arm-like runs
sweeping around the right flank and rear, consistent with
similar formations seen in other galaxies such as  Ngc 3079 

7.    'Differential Angular Momentum' can be suggested as
a cause for disk rims on one side of the Sombrero galaxy and
galaxy  NGC 4526 being horizontal planes and on the other
side a vertical faces 

8.   In sum total, Sombrero is biased as an oblong galaxy,
it is not truly spherical 

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Sombrero image public release   at APOD

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