Galaxy
The Black Eye Galaxy
Also M64 · NGC 4826
A spiral galaxy with a dark band of dust across its bright centre, like a black eye.
Measured
- Distance
- 17.3 million light-years
- Size
- about 50,000 light-years across (approximate)
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Position (J2000)
- RA 12h 56m 44s, Dec +21.68°
How far, from the Sun
17.3 million light-years. To cross it:
- Light17.3 million years
- Voyager 1's speed307 billion years
- Driving at 100 km/h187 trillion years
Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.
Facts
- Its outer gas spins the opposite way to its inner gas, probably the trace of a merger with a smaller galaxy.
- It is moving away from us at about 410 km/s (NASA/IPAC NED).
Where this comes from
- Cosmicflows-3, Tully, Courtois & Sorce 2016, AJ 152, 50 (5.3 Mpc)
- This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, CDS, Strasbourg, France (Wenger et al. 2000, A&AS 143, 9).
- This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier).
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