10. Galaxy of Needle’s Eye
Found Year: 1795
It Was Discovered by William Herschel
Place: Berenice Coma
Situated in the Coma Berenice constellation, Needle’s Eye Galaxy (NGC 4565) is an edge-on spiral galaxy that is roughly 30 to 50 million light-years away from Earth. William Herschel made the first discovery of Needle’s Eye Galaxy in 1785, and it is located close to the North Galactic Pole.
The Needle’s Eye Galaxy ©JPL-Caltech/Wikimedia/NASA
Famous for having an odd hole on one side of its core, the Needle’s Eye Galaxy is thought to have been created by a collision with dark matter. The galaxy’s narrow profile is where its name comes from. It is well known that the Needle’s Eye Galaxy is brighter than the Andromeda Galaxy.
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