... M104: The Sombrero Galaxy . ... The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters give this galaxy its name. ... M1: Filaments of the Crab Nebula . ... In December and early January, Comet Hale-Bopp was too near the Sun to be easily visible from Earth. ... Galaxies are made up of stars, but are all stars found within galaxies? ... Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers exploring the Virgo Cluster of galaxies have now found about 600 red giant stars adrift in intergalactic space....