Cigar Galaxy (M82)
GALAXY · the starburst engine
A galaxy in overdrive. A close encounter with its big neighbor M81 squeezed its gas, and now M82 forges new stars about ten times faster than the Milky Way. The frenzy is so intense that glowing gas erupts out of the galaxy's disk in red fountains, visible in photographs as a cosmic bonfire seen edge on.
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