Messier 82
The new header photograph was captured from the Hubble telescope, is called the Messier 82 Galaxy and is about 12 million light years away in the Ursa Major constellation. Below is the same galaxy given as a composite of images obtained from the Hubble, Spitzer and, Chandra Telescopes.
Plumes of glowing hydrogen blast from the central nucleus of M82. The pale, star-like objects are clusters of tens to hundreds of thousands of stars.
