It clearly was time to reclassify M82 once again, a nearly annual ritual like Thanksgiving. It is now labeled, hopefully permanently, a “starburst galaxy.” Although its days are numbered as a ...

The "Cigar Galaxy" Messier 82 is ablaze with intense star formation, and the JWST's infrared capabilities are getting to its very core. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has zoomed in to the ...

(M82 is in the far northern skies ... even though it has only one-twenty-fifth of the Milky Way's mass. It is a starburst galaxy, so named because it is undergoing a phase in which star formation ...

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 galaxy ...

Bolatto The starburst galaxy M82 has been a popular target for observatories like the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. Now, a team has turned the new James Webb Space Telescope toward this ...

M82 is one of the closest (12 million light-years) examples of an edge-on system in starburst chaos. In images, it appears like an extragalactic radical, with spiked “hairs” bristling off a ...

It is what is known as a starburst galaxy due to its remarkably high rate of star formation. In fact, for every star born in the Milky Way, 10 burst into existence in M82. The reason for this much ...

M82 is what is called a starburst galaxy, which means that it's forming stars at a rapid clip, with the burst likely to have been triggered by interactions with its neighbors. Overall, the galaxy ...

This composite image of starburst galaxy M82 shows the distribution of dense molecular gas as seen by the GBT (yellow and red) and the background stars and dust as seen by Hubble (blue).

M82 is a starburst galaxy--so full of new, exploding and dying stars that astronomers liken it to a fireworks factory. Last year, Andrew Ptak of Carnegie Mellon University and colleague Richard ...