#m64

[quiltofstars]

The Black Eye Galaxy, M64 // Michael J. Mangieri

[penbwl]

He’s so fucking dumb looking❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Alpine M64 1964 - Salon ,Auto-Moto Classic ,Metz ,2018

[celestnomad]

I'm in love with M64

Look at the beauty 🥺

[thefirststarr]

This magnificent spiral galaxy is Messier 64 (M64), often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy. It’s nickname comes from its dark-lidded appearance in telescopic views. The spiral's central region, about 7,400 light-years across, is pictured in this reprocessed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. M64 lies some 17 million light-years away in the otherwise well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices. The enormous dust clouds partially obscuring M64's central region are filled with young, blue star clusters and the reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star forming regions. But imposing clouds of dust are not this galaxy's only peculiar feature. Observations show that M64 is actually composed of two concentric, counter-rotating systems. While all the stars in M64 rotate in the same direction as the interstellar gas in the galaxy's central region, gas in the outer regions, extending to about 40,000 light-years, rotates in the opposite direction. The dusty eye and bizarre rotation are likely the result of a billion year old merger of two different galaxies.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing: Jonathan Lodge

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[androgynousbirdtale]

M64: The Black Eye Galaxy Close Up

This magnificent spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its dark-lidded appearance in telescopic views. The spiral's central region, about 7,400 light-years across, is pictured in this reprocessed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. M64 lies some 17 million light-years distant in the otherwise well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices. The enormous dust clouds partially obscuring M64's central region are laced with young, blue star clusters and the reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star forming regions. But imposing clouds of dust are not this galaxy's only peculiar feature. Observations show that M64 is actually composed of two concentric, counter-rotating systems. While all the stars in M64 rotate in the same direction as the interstellar gas in the galaxy's central region, gas in the outer regions, extending to about 40,000 light-years, rotates in the opposite direction. The dusty eye and bizarre rotation are likely the result of a billion year old merger of two different galaxies.

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M64 Black Eye Galaxy

Or for Spooktober, it could be known by it's other name, the Evil Eye galaxy.

Random Messier for today's post, and one of my personal favourites, 17 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Coma Berenices, it has a very active core, and is known as a type 2 Seyfert Galaxy, meaning it's central black hole is actively consuming mass and generating radio and x-ray radiation. Seyfert galaxies are like baby Quasars, they output just like Quasars, but are not powerful enough to outshine their entire galaxy.

The galaxy also shows a large recent injection of matter, probably indicating some kind of recent merger and as a result, has strong dust and gas areas that obscure the light, set against the bright nucleus, making the galaxy look dark, although I am unsure Evil.