Hubble spies a spiral that may be hiding an imposter
The sparkling spiral galaxy gracing this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, which sits about 60 million light ...
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Infrared View of a Sky Area in the Constellation Ursa Major (IMAGE)
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows an infrared view of a sky area in the constellation Ursa Major. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...
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The Cigar Galaxy (IMAGE)
Caption M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, lies 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Fermi’s LAT and the ground-based VERITAS observatory have detected diffuse gamma ...
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Milky Way
Credit: NASA/JPL. Located 12 million light-years away, M82 appears high in the northern spring sky in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is also called the “Cigar ...