🌌 M82 — The Galaxy That Breathes Fire - 🔥 Red Fury 📸 @astrofotografie_saarland 🌟 In the silent outskirts of the Ursa Major constellation, a thin, shining shard of starlight burns with impossible intensity. This is Messier 82, the Cigar Galaxy — a starburst world pushed beyond its limits. Here, matter collapses faster than time can count. Its core ignites with a star-formation rate ten times higher than that of the Milky Way. Every second, massive suns rise from clouds of dust, only to explod

18K views · 615 reactions | Messier 82 (M82) is a starburst galaxy –...

Probing Extreme Starburst Galaxy Messier 82 | James Webb Space Telescope FriendsofNASA.org: 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 is relatively compact in size but hosts a frenzy of star formation activity. For comparison, M82 is sprouting new stars 10 times faster than the Milky Way galaxy. Using Webb to inspect the activity in galaxies lik