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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spent 65 hours capturing a 223-megapixel, near-infrared image of Messier 82 (the Cigar Galaxy), resolving about 16.5 million stars and revealing a distended disk; when combined with Hubble data, the image helps scientists study M82's unusually rapid star formation (around 10 times faster than the Milky Way) and its evolutionary history.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed about 16.5 million individual stars in edge-on Messier 82 (the Cigar Galaxy) by peering through dust, mapping its distended disk and a rapid, merger-driven starburst. The Webb data, complemented by Hubble observations, help researchers probe how star formation and outflows have shaped M82 over the past few hundred million years.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed infrared image of the Cigar Galaxy (Messier 82), revealing a vibrant, active star-forming region that surpasses Hubble's capabilities in detail, especially through dusty clouds, providing new insights into galaxy dynamics and star formation processes.