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Messier 64 earned its nickname because of a dark band of absorbing dust in front of its eye-like bright nucleus.
It is located 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, known as the Whale.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shot the vibrant phenomenon from 250 miles up.
The observatory captured NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy 65 million lightâyears away in Virgo.