Space scientists have shown off a new view of the so-called ‘Black Eye Galaxy’, also known as Messier 64.

The Galaxy’s Unique Features

The composite view was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, revealing a dark band of absorbing dust in front of its eye-like bright nucleus.

NASA’s Webb Telescope Team said the image shows Messier 64 captured at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths by Webb, while Hubble’s image shows the galaxy in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.

Messier 64 is characterized by its bizarre internal motion, with the gas in the outer regions of this spiral galaxy rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions.

This strange behavior may be the result of a merger between M64 and a satellite galaxy over a billion years ago.

Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.