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Galactic Starburst

15 October 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 1 Comment

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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