{"id":43601,"date":"2025-09-28T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/43601\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:14:09","slug":"hubble-lights-a-cosmic-cigar-in-the-great-bear-photo-of-the-day-for-sept-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/43601\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble lights a cosmic ‘cigar’ in the Great Bear photo of the day for Sept. 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hidden within veils of gas and dust lies the brilliant heart of Messier 82 <\/a>(M82), better known as the Cigar Galaxy. This galaxy has earned its reputation as one of the most energetic star-forming galaxies in the universe.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> took this image of the galaxy, showing it buzzing with activity.<\/p>\n

What is it?<\/p>\n

M82 is classified as a starburst galaxy, because it forms stars at a rate 10 times faster<\/a> than our own Milky Way<\/a> galaxy. This accelerated pace of stellar birth powers immense outflows of gas and fuels the growth of super star clusters at its core, which contain hundreds of thousands of stars<\/a> and shine far brighter than typical star clusters.<\/p>\n

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By observing M82, astronomers gain unique insights into how these extreme environments give rise to massive stellar nurseries,<\/a> and how those nurseries evolve over time.<\/p>\n

Where is it?<\/p>\n

The Cigar Galaxy is located 12 million light-years<\/a> away in the constellation Ursa Major<\/a>, or the Great Bear.<\/p>\n

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The full image of the Cigar Galaxy, or M82, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA\/Hubble & NASA, W. D. Vacca)Why is it amazing?<\/p>\n

M82 has been a popular target for astronomers and their telescopes, due to its high activity. Hubble has observed it many times, and, more recently, the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> turned its infrared eye on the Cigar Galaxy to show views of its dynamics in new wavelengths. <\/a><\/p>\n

The galaxy will continue to help astronomers better understand processes like star formation<\/a>, stellar winds<\/a> and super star clusters.<\/p>\n

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You can read more about the Hubble’s images<\/a> and the M82 galaxy. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hidden within veils of gas and dust lies the brilliant heart of Messier 82 (M82), better known as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-43601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}