The Black galaxy

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Photo: THE BLACK EYE GALAXY Dark lanes of light-absorbing dust obscure the bright nucleus of M64, or the Black Eye Galaxy. M64's collision with a smaller satellite galaxy produced some unusual physical processes. While the all the stars in the Bl ack Eye Galaxy rotate clockwise as seen in this image, interstellar gas around the edges moves in the opposite direction. As the gas in the inner region, spanning 3000 light-years, collides with the gas that rotates in the opposite direction, the gasses compress and contract to form new stars. M64 is popular with amateur astronomers and can be spotted 17 million light-years distant in the Coma Berenices constellation.
THE BLACK EYE GALAXY

Dark lanes of light-absorbing dust obscure the bright nucleus of M64, or the Black Eye Galaxy. M64's collision with a smaller satellite galaxy produced some unusual physical processes. While the all the stars in the Bl

ack Eye Galaxy rotate clockwise as seen in this image, interstellar gas around the edges moves in the opposite direction.

As the gas in the inner region, spanning 3000 light-years, collides with the gas that rotates in the opposite direction, the gasses compress and contract to form new stars. M64 is popular with amateur astronomers and can be spotted 17 million light-years distant in the Coma Berenices constellation.


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