The Big Dipper is generally the first star group youngsters learn. This asterism seems benign and tranquil and — far from the bustling creamy glow of the Milky Way — uncomplicated. For astrophysicists ...

The Subaru Telescope, fitted with the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS), has produced a new image of the interior of the starburst galaxy M82 that reveals young star clusters as ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio astronomers at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a strange new object in a nearby galaxy. The object, which appeared very suddenly in radio ...

The cool wind of galaxy M82 drives gas and dust up to 40,000 light-years from its core, as shown here using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. The ...

University of Michigan astronomers were part of a team that have helped gain shocking insight into a "scientifically unique" ...

2006 images from three of NASA’s Great Observatories were combined to create this spectacular, multiwavelength view of the starburst galaxy M82. Optical light from stars (yellow-green/Hubble Space ...

Astronomers just caught a dead star in a distant galaxy throwing a massive temper tantrum. A magnetar in galaxy M82 recently sent a huge burst of gamma rays and other radiation blasting out into space ...

An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers has used the giant radio telescope LOFAR to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths. Made by observing ...

I woke up to some great science news: A supernova has gone off in the nearby galaxy M82! This is terribly exciting for astronomers. M82 is pretty close as galaxies go, less than 12 million light years ...

Messier 82 (M82) is a luminous infrared galaxy about twelve million light-years away from the Milky Way. Its burst of star formation powers the radiation and drives a bipolar superwind that originates ...

Radio astronomers have discovered a strange new object in a nearby galaxy. The object, which appeared very suddenly in radio wavelengths and shows no signs of going away, does not appear to be like ...