Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  Black Eye Galaxy  ·  Black-eye galaxy  ·  Evil Eye Galaxy  ·  IC 3917  ·  M 64  ·  NGC 4826
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M64 LLRGB, Valerio Avitabile
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Messier 64, Black Eye Galaxy (also known as Devil's Eye Galaxy), is a spiral, pinwheel-shaped galaxy visible in the constellation Berenice's Coma.
Opposite the bright galactic centre is a conspicuous dark band of light-absorbing dust, hence the nickname 'Black Eye'. It has a size of about 50000 light years and is about 17.3 million light years away from Earth. It is characterised by its bizarre internal movement. The gas in the outer regions of this extraordinary galaxy is rotating in the opposite direction to the gas and stars in its inner regions. This strange behaviour can be attributed to a merger between M64 and a satellite galaxy that occurred over a billion years ago.

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M64 LLRGB, Valerio Avitabile