Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4562  ·  NGC 4565  ·  Needle Galaxy
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The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565)

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The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565)

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Another spiral galaxy seen edge-on: NGC 4565, aka the Needle Galaxy. Dark dust lanes obscure the brighter parts of the galaxy and make a dark streak across the bright central bulge. This galaxy is about 42 Mly away in the constellation Coma Berenices. This image also shows lots of more distant galaxies -- the streak and the blob in the upper left, for example -- hundreds of millions of light-years away!

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The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565), AstroGeoGuy2590