At a distance of around 11.5 million light-years from our Solar System it is one of our closer intergalactic neighbours, and one of the closest starburst galaxies [1] visible from the southern ...

It is a starburst galaxy, so named because of the ... atom fall from a higher energy level to a lower one, emitting light as they do so. This emission is interesting because this light leaves ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light." A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a ...

M82 sits about 12 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It's not a particularly large galaxy, but M82 is the quintessential starburst galaxy with its robust rate of ...

Astronomers have peered into the heart of a nearby starburst galaxy to better understand ... lies approximately 11.5 million light-years from the Milky Way, close enough for an in-depth ...

The scintillating light show from the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy is the spiked starburst feature at the center of the new Webb image, which was released on Monday. The telescope’s Near ...