Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ever since.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into orbit in April 1990. The Sombrero Galaxy is a fan-favorite of many an amateur astronomer and "an eye-catching target for Hubble," notes the ESA in a statement.

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has revealed that supermassive black holes nestle at the heart of most large galaxies,