The Black Eye Galaxy (10 mar 2021)

The Black Eye Galaxy (also known as Messier 64) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years

away in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and

independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780. A dark band of

absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus gave rise to its nicknames of the Black Eye or Evil Eye galaxy.

Object type: Seyfert Galaxy