{"id":514947,"date":"2026-06-23T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:55:16","slug":"m82-cigar-galaxy-webb-hubble-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514947\/","title":{"rendered":"M82 Cigar Galaxy (Webb + Hubble Fade)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s near-infrared imaging survey of Messier 82 (M82) is the most recent observation of this starburst galaxy, adding to the amount of overall data that has been collected over the years on this galaxy by different space telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope previously looked at M82 in visible light. The amount of dust within M82 shrouds the galaxy\u2019s details at this wavelength. Webb\u2019s infrared-light view pierces through the dusty environment of M82 and reveals millions of individual stars within the galaxy\u2019s heart (seen here as luminous blue-white granules). Red-orange clumps are small dust grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope\u2019s near-infrared imaging survey of Messier 82 (M82) is the most recent observation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1506,1508,61,60,9412,82,247],"class_list":["post-514947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-galaxies","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}