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The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a new image of the 'Black Eye' galaxy, so named because an ancient cosmic smashup produced a dark ring and a roiling, conflicted interior. What looks like a black eye in the Hubble picture is actually a dark band of dust that stands out vividly in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, Hubble scientists said in a statement on February 5, 2004. The image shows an area where hot blue stars have just formed, along with pink clouds of hydrogen gas that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light from the infant stars. Astronomers believe the galaxy's internal conflict arose when the 'Black Eye' absorbed a satellite galaxy that collided with it, perhaps more than a billion years ago. Long known to amateur astronomers because it can be seen with small telescopes, the 'Black Eye' galaxy is about 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). (NASA, Hubble Heritage Team/Reuters)
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a new image of the 'Black Eye' galaxy, so named because an ancient cosmic smashup produced a dark ring and a roiling, conflicted interior. What looks like a black eye in the Hubble picture is actually a dark band of dust that stands out vividly in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, Hubble scientists said in a statement on February 5, 2004. The image shows an area where hot blue stars have just formed, along with pink clouds of hydrogen gas that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light from the infant stars. Astronomers believe the galaxy's internal conflict arose when the 'Black Eye' absorbed a satellite galaxy that collided with it, perhaps more than a billion years ago. Long known to amateur astronomers because it can be seen with small telescopes, the 'Black Eye' galaxy is about 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). (NASA, Hubble Heritage Team/Reuters)
