This galaxy, NGC 4565, is a disk galaxy viewed at nearly an edge-on angle. The darker line running down the middle of the disk is a feature called a dust lane, identified by users in the Galaxy ...
Spiral galaxies seen edge-on often show dark lanes of interstellar dust blocking light from the galaxy's stars, as in this image of the galaxy NGC 4565 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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