Our first target is the wonderful pair of Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) in Ursa Major. Both lie some 12 ...
This clear image of Messier 82 (M82) shows its glowing clouds and gas plumes. Stars in this galaxy form ten times faster than in the Milky Way. This NASA/ESA Hubble image shows the edge-on disk galaxy ...
The reason for this much greater activity lies in M82's gravitational interactions with a neighbouring galaxy known as M81. The fantastic image here is the sharpest wide-angle view of M82 ever ...
M82 is a nearby galaxy forming stars 10 times faster than the Milky Way due to gravitational interactions with its neighbour, M81. – UGC 1810 and UGC 1813 are a pair of galaxies colliding and ...