NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the Evil Eye galaxy, also known as NGC 4826, located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. What stands out most is its bright yellow nucleus, which shines brightly amongst dark dust in brown and orange.
This relatively isolated spiral galaxy was first discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and then independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. Astronomers note that the inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy, while the the stellar population exhibits no measurable counter-rotation.
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First discovered in 1799, astronomers know this galaxy by its peculiar internal motion. The gas in the inner and outer regions move in opposite directions, which may be due to a recent galactic merger,” said NASA.
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