Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Black Eye Galaxy (also M64 or NGC 4826) had a surprise up its sleeve.
Featuring Dr Becky Smethurst, the Sixty Symbols Ogden Fellow at the University of Nottingham.

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