When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again unveiled groundbreaking insights into the universe, this time ...

Starburst galaxy M82 shines spectacularly in this Hubble Space Telescope image; spying it through a backyard scope, on the other hand, can reveal what seem like secret shimmering stars.

The new supernova 2014J, the brightest since 1993, is located in the galaxy M82. This Type-Ia supernova has just reached its peak brightness of magnitude 10.6.

COSMIC CRASH. Despite M82’s (right) distance from spiral galaxy M81 — some 130,000 light-years — gravity links the two galaxies; it’s only a matter of time before the pair collide and ...

Due to the effects of its proximity to another galaxy, M82 is a nursery of sorts to massive stars, which are 10 times more common there than in the Milky Way.

This starburst galaxy, also known as Messier 82 (M82), has a compact but turbulent environment at its core that could give scientists a clearer picture of how stars are born en masse, and how ...

The galaxy, known as M82, is 10 million light years away and is a stellar production line churning out new stars at a prodigious rate. However, many of these stars die quickly in huge explosions ...

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 ...

These before and after shots of the Cigar Galaxy (M82) by amateur astronomer Fred Hermann illustrate the dramatic emergence of a new supernova. The image at left was captured on Nov. 28, 2013.

A new observation of the M82 galaxy has turned up a surprise—a previously discovered, incredibly bright object. was pulsing The object, called M82 X-2, is bright enough to be classified as an ...