Posts Tagged ‘M82’
Rainbow Mist
Credit: NASA & ESA
Using different wavelengths of light, scientists more easily explore the nearby starburst galaxy M82. Scientists combined light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope for this view and have found evidence for two black holes at the center of this active galaxy.
Grand Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Here on Earth, we have a perfect seat to look on at the sweeping, grand design of spiral galaxy M81.
Galactic Starburst
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
This galaxy appears to be bursting at the seams. The Starburst Galaxy, also called M82 and NGC 3034, shows a bright blue disk surrounded by wispy dark streams of dust and plumes of glowing hydrogen streaking out of its center. M82 is considered by astronomers to be an irregular galaxy because it has no definite shape.
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