M82 The Cigar Galaxy (Dale A Chamberlain)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Cigar Galaxy · M 82 · NGC 3034

M82 The Cigar Galaxy

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M82 The Cigar Galaxy

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M82, or the Cigar galaxy, shines brightly at infrared wavelengths and is remarkable for its star formation activity. The Cigar galaxy experiences gravitational interactions with its galactic neighbor, M81, causing it to have an extraordinarily high rate of star formation — a starburst.

Around the galaxy’s center, young stars are being born ten times faster than they are inside our entire Milky Way galaxy. Radiation and energetic particles from these newborn stars carve into the surrounding gas, and the resulting galactic wind compresses enough gas to make millions of more stars. The rapid rate of star formation in this galaxy eventually will be self-limiting. When star formation becomes too vigorous, it will consume or destroy the material needed to make more stars. The starburst will then subside, probably in a few tens of millions of years.

M82 was discovered, along with its neighbor M81, by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774. Located 12 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, M82 has an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and best observed in April. Although it is visible as a patch of light with binoculars in the same field of view as M81, larger telescopes are needed to resolve the galaxy’s core.

Ritchey Chretien telescopes GSO Family
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Cooled Color Cams
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ZWO ASI 2600MC PRO
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RA (center)	09h55m51s.490
RA (top/left)	09h58m33s.559
RA (top/right)	09h53m08s.213
RA (bottom/right)	09h53m10s.626
RA (bottom/left)	09h58m31s.980

Dec (center)	+69°40′56″.72
Dec (top/left)	+69°50′13″.27
Dec (top/right)	+69°50′13″.23
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°31′30″.67
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°31′32″.29

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