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, Chris Plonski
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M64, The Black-Eye Galaxy

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M64, The Black-Eye Galaxy

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Messier 64 is also known as the Black-Eye Galaxy and is located about 17 million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. The galaxy gets its name from the band of dark dust obscuring part of the bright core. The gas in the outer regions of this remarkable galaxy is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions, likely due to a merger with a satellite galaxy over a billion years ago. New stars are forming in the region where the oppositely rotating gases collide.

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