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M82
M82 Hubble and Webb
Starburst galaxy M82 was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006, which showed the galaxy’s edge-on spiral disk, shredded clouds, and hot hydrogen gas. The James Webb Space Telescope has observed M82’s core, capturing in unprecedented detail the structure of the galactic wind and...
M82
Webb NIRCam – Shorter Wavelengths
A team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82), which is located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M82 hosts a frenzy of star formation, sprouting new stars 10 times faster than the Milky Way galaxy. Webb’s...
M82
Webb NIRCam – Longer Wavelength
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to look toward M82’s center, where a galactic wind is being launched as a result of rapid star formation and subsequent supernovas. Studying the galactic wind can offer insight in how the loss of gas shapes the future growth of the galaxy. This...
UGC 12158
Wayward Asteroid Photobombs Hubble Snapshot of Galaxy UGC 12158
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 looks like someone took a white marking pen to it. In reality it is a combination of time exposures of a foreground asteroid moving through Hubble's field-of-view, photobombing the observation of the galaxy. Several...
Stephan's Quintet
Intruder Galaxy Shocks Tightly-Knit Group
A compact group of galaxies about 280 million light years from Earth.
RCW 38
Chandra's Archives Come to Life
Six images that combine Chandra data with those from other telescopes.
UGC 12158
Asteroid photobombs Hubble snapshot of Galaxy UGC 12158
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 looks like someone took a white marking pen to it. In reality it is a combination of time exposures of a foreground asteroid moving through Hubble’s field of view, photobombing the observation of the galaxy....
NGC 6240
Never Before Seen: Two Supermassive Black Holes in Same Galaxy
An extremely luminous galaxy about 400 million light years from Earth.
Galactic Center
Chandra Takes In The Bright Lights, Big City Of The Milky Way
A 400 by 900 light-year mosaic of images located about 25,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius.
Sagittarius A*
Milky Way Monster Stars in Cosmic Reality Show
This image of Sgr A* was made from the longest X-ray exposure of that region to date.
Gaia BH3
Wide-field view around the BH3 black hole
This image shows a wide-field view of the area around Gaia BH3, the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy. The black hole itself is not visible here, but the star that orbits around it can be seen right at the centre of this image, created from photographs of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
NGC 2685
NGC 2685: A Helix in the Sky
The very unusual galaxy NGC 2685, also known as the Helix Galaxy, is located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This image was captured by the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF NOIRLab which is funded by the...
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CL 0939+4713
Remote Galaxies Appear Distorted and Fragmented
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds of its present age. Hubble's high resolution allows astronomers to study, for the first time, the shapes of galaxies as they were...
