Today the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope presents us with a picture of NGC4826, a spiral galaxy located 17 million light years away from Earth , in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair).
Due to the dark band of dust that runs along one side of its bright core, the galaxy is also known as the "Black Eye Galaxy" or "Evil Eye Galaxy."
NGC4826, which was first discovered in 1779 by the English astronomer Edward Pigott, is an interesting galaxy for astronomers to study because of its strange internal motion. The gas in the outer regions of this galaxy and that of the inner zones rotate in opposite directions, something that could be related to a merger not too far in time (astronomically speaking).
Another curiosity of this "eye in the sky": new stars are forming in the region where the gases collide in counter-rotation.
