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Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82

By |2025-05-07T09:09:10-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In the upper left corner, surrounded by blue arms and dotted with red nebulas, is spiral galaxy M81. In the lower right corner, marked by a light central line and surrounded by red glowing gas, is irregular galaxy M82. This stunning vista shows these two mammoth galaxies locked in gravitational [...]

NGC 602: Stars Versus Pillars from Webb

By |2024-10-29T09:09:10-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The stars are destroying the pillars. More specifically, some of the newly formed stars in the image center are emitting light so energetic that is evaporating the gas and dust in the surrounding pillars. Simultaneously, the pillars themselves are still trying to form new stars. The whole setting is the [...]

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