Eye in the Sky Black Eye Galaxy Enhanced
by Weston Westmoreland
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Eye in the Sky Black Eye Galaxy Enhanced
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Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Eye in the Sky, the Black Eye Galaxy Enhanced.
NGC4826 is a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in Coma Berenices. This galaxy is known as the “Black Eye”, or “Evil Eye”, galaxy because of the dark band of dust across one side of its bright nucleus.
NGC4826 is known by astronomers for its strange internal motion. The gas in the outer regions of this galaxy and the gas in its inner regions are rotating in opposite directions, which might be related to a recent merger. New stars are forming in the region where the counter rotating gases collide. This galaxy was first discovered in 1779 by the English astronomer Edward Pigott.
Original image and text by ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team and Judy Schmidty, further image enhancements and post processing by Weston Westmoreland.
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March 1st, 2021
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