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There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe.
The Sombrero Galaxy, officially called M104, contains millions/billions of suns, is 25,000 light-years across, is 29 million light-years from Earth, is probably 13 billion years old, and was discovered in 1791.
This link shows the vast range of sizes in our Universe.
We are 8 light-minutes from our own sun (a distance of 93 million miles). This means we see it as it was 8 minutes ago.
The M104 galaxy is 183 thousand million times farther away ...
Here's how it was 29 million years ago:
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