Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  Black Eye Galaxy  ·  Black-eye galaxy  ·  Evil Eye Galaxy  ·  M 64  ·  NGC 4826
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M64, the Black Eye Galaxy, has a magnitude of 8.5 and an apparent size of 9.3 by 5.4 arc minutes. It is approximately 17 million light years distant and has a diameter of around 48,000 light-years. Unusually, it is thought that the interstellar gas in the outer regions of M64 rotate in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in the inner regions.

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