Galaxy M82 in x-ray and visible light

Galaxy M82 captured by Chandra X-ray Observatory
Galaxy M82 captured by Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Messier 82 (M82, NGC 3034) is a star-burst galaxy located about 12 million light-years away from Earth, in the Ursa Major constellation. The above image was captured using the x-ray spectrum by Chandra Observatory. The image below is of the same galaxy but this time it is a composite visible light image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Galaxy M82 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
Galaxy M82 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope

These pictures of the M82 galaxy were taken as part of NuSTAR;  a Small Explorer mission led by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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