https://hgastro.github.io/tags/m94/Recent content in M94 on Suburban Backyard Astro SightsHugo -- gohugo.ioenhgastroblog@gmail.comhgastroblog@gmail.comAll images and content on this website © 2025 Howard GramsFri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://hgastro.github.io/posts/2020-05-01-two-face-on-spiral-galaxies/Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000hgastroblog@gmail.comhttps://hgastro.github.io/posts/2020-05-01-two-face-on-spiral-galaxies/<p>M94 is a face-on spiral galaxy whose spiral arms hug the middle and wind very tightly into the core. It is sometimes called the Cat&rsquo;s Eye galaxy or the or Croc’s Eye Galaxy. It is about 16 million light years from the Earth. Around the brilliant circular disk is a ring of active star-forming regions, revealed in astrophotography as blue young star clusters. This artifact delineates it from the faded outer ring of an older yellowish stellar population.</p>