Messier 64, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy or Sleeping Beauty Galaxy, a stunning spiral galaxy approximately 17 million light-years away in the Coma Berenices constellation. This image showcases its distinctive dark dust lane creating a "black eye" effect, along with reddish star-forming regions. The galaxy's unique feature is its counter-rotating inner and outer regions, a result of a past galactic merger.
Astronomy Picture from 04/04/2013
M64: The Black Eye Galaxy
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130404.html
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