M104 lies at the nearer edge of the 60 million light years distant Virgo cluster of galaxies, and at nearly a trillion solar masses, is one of the more massive galaxies in that group, even though relatively small (about 50 thousand light years across). The massive central bulge of the galaxy almost totally obscures the structure of the spiral disk, but a reworking of the image, shown as the lower of the two below, reduces the glare from the nucleus, better revealing the structure of the disk. (Upper image: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), NASA; Lower image: NASA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), apod080308)