This new image of galaxy Messier 82, acquired by astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, is said to be “the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths ...

The Messier 82 Galaxy (commonly known as M82) is a starburst galaxy located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth, with starburst meaning it is experiencing an unusually high rate of star ...

A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this ...

Scientists have been searching for what's fueling the ejection of gas and dust out of Messier 82, known as the Cigar galaxy. Astronomers know the galaxy has thousands of stars coming into ...

At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of students — Ben Cooke, Tom Wright, Matthew Wilde and Guy Pollack — assisted by Dr. Steve Fossey, spotted the exploding star in nearby galaxy Messier 82 ...

At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of students -- Ben Cooke, Tony Brown, Matthew Wilde and Guy Pollack -- assisted by Dr Steve Fossey, spotted the exploding star in nearby galaxy Messier 82 (the ...

Messier 82 Seen in Different Lights The galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is seen here in two different lights. A visible-light view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is at left, and an X-ray view from ...

Magnetic fields in Messier 82, or the Cigar galaxy, are shown as lines over a visible light and infrared composite image of the galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space ...

But the Sombrero galaxy is quiet in terms of star formation compared with other galaxies such as Messier 82. Ten times as many stars are born in the latter galaxy than the estimated 100 billion ...

Messier 82 description Celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 16 years of service, NASA and the European Space Agency have issued new high-resolution photos of the starburst Messier 82 galaxy ...

The galaxy, called Messier 82, or the "Cigar galaxy," was previously known to host a hotbed of young, massive stars. The new Spitzer image reveals, for the first time, the "smoke" surrounding ...