By Gurpreet Singh |February 23, 2026
The Black Eye Galaxy, also called M64, is famous for its dark dust band, giving it a bruised appearance in space.
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NGC 4945 is a bright spiral galaxy seen edge-on, hiding an active supermassive black hole deep within its glowing central region.
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The Circinus Galaxy lies close to the Milky Way and contains powerful gas jets, revealing energetic activity around its central black hole.
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The Milky Way is our home galaxy. It is a vast spiral system containing billions of stars, including our Sun and planet Earth.
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The Cat’s Eye Galaxy, M94, features a bright inner ring where rapid star formation creates a striking circular glow.
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The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83, displays beautiful pink star-forming regions scattered across its well-defined spiral structure.
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The Hidden Galaxy, IC 342, is obscured by interstellar dust but remains one of the brightest galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood.
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The Sculptor Galaxy is another starburst galaxy, glowing brightly as clusters of young stars illuminate its swirling spiral arms.
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The Cigar Galaxy, or M82, is experiencing intense star formation, producing brilliant bursts of new stars at extraordinary rates.
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Maffei 1 is a giant elliptical galaxy, rich in older stars, and one of the nearest large galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
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Maffei 2 is partly hidden behind our galaxy’s dust, making it difficult to observe despite being relatively close to us.
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Bode’s Galaxy, also known as M81, is a grand spiral galaxy with sweeping arms filled with young, bright stars.
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