As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was sparked ...

Starburst galaxies experience episodes of pronounced star formation, where stellar superclusters containing 100,000 stars or more are born in the hundreds. ... Newsletter sign up.

This starburst galaxy, also known as Messier 82 (M82), has a compact but turbulent environment at its core that could give scientists a clearer picture of how stars are born en masse, and how ...