... A Starry Night of Iceland . ... On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. ... Named the Sombrero Galaxy for its hat-like resemblance, M104 features a prominent dust lane and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. ... But it is the brightest star at the left of this well-composed, starry mosaic spanning about 23 degrees across the northern sky asterism dubbed the Little Dipper. ...