M59 (Galaxy Detectives) - Deep Sky Videos (2020-06-14) |
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... There's a population of stars crammed into that region that are actually rotating in the opposite direction. So this galaxy has what we call a counter-rotating core. So you've got one component of the galaxy going in one direction, and you've got this little component in the middle plowing through in exactly the opposite direction... |
M64 (Black Eye Galaxy) - Deep Sky Videos (2017-07-20) |
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... In the middle, the stars are going in the same direction as the gas, and that sort of anti-clockwise direction. In the outskirts, there's going still in the same direction as the stars in the centre. But that means that they're going opposite to the gas, and it's against the flow... |
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