The Eyes Galaxy
Imagery · NASA / ESA / Hubble
Named· Dedicated
NGC 4438

The Eyes Galaxy

Dedicated as
For Ana — my whole sky
Distance
52 Mly
Morphology
spiral
Constellation
Virgo
Right Asc.
186.941°
Declination
13.009°
Catalog
NGC
This galaxy has been dedicated
Permanently filed in the registry.
·Includes an archival 12″×18″ print, shipped worldwide.
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About The Eyes Galaxy

The Eyes Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located approximately 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Its coordinates in the sky are right ascension 186.941° and declination 13.009°, and it is catalogued in the New General Catalogue (NGC).

The light reaching Earth from The Eyes Galaxy today left the galaxy roughly 52 million years ago. What you see in telescope imagery is a snapshot of the galaxy as it appeared before most of Earth’s mammalian history.

Through the Galactic Registry, you can symbolically dedicate The Eyes Galaxy in a name, memory, or message of your choosing. Your dedication is filed permanently in our public registry and printed on an archival 12″×18″ cotton-stock certificate, shipped worldwide. This is not an official IAU renaming — only the International Astronomical Union can officially name celestial bodies — but it is a permanent symbolic act tied to a galaxy that demonstrably exists, can be pointed at from any observatory on Earth, and has been imaged by NASA, ESA, or a ground-based telescope.

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