This week, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, revealing the first-ever mid-infrared ...

The James Webb Space Telescope just captured a gorgeous image of the Sombrero galaxy. This cluster now looks more like an ...

A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the ...

The Milky Way galaxy, where you’re most likely reading this from, creates roughly two solar masses per year. Messier 82, otherwise called the Cigar galaxy, is responsible for around 20 solar ...

These galaxies—which include the Cigar Galaxy M82 and NGC 253—form stars at rates 10 to 100 times faster than normal galaxies, usually triggered by external events, such as galaxy mergers ...

At about 21 million light-years from the solar system, SN 2023ixf is the closest supernova since SN 2014J in the Cigar Galaxy (also called M82) in 2014, which was around 12 million light-years ...

It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative to our line of sight. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage ...