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M82, at a distance of 11 million light years from Earth, is the nearest starburst galaxy. Massive stars are forming and expiring in M82 at a rate ten times higher than in our galaxy.

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Description	English: M82, at a distance of 11 million light years from Earth, is the nearest starburst galaxy. Massive stars are forming and expiring in M82 at a rate ten times higher than in our galaxy. The bright spots in the center are supernova remnants and X-ray binaries. These are some of the brightest such objects known. The luminosity of the X-ray binaries suggests that most contain a black hole. The diffuse X-ray light in the image extends over several thousand light years, and is caused by multimillion degree gas flowing out of M82. A close encounter with a large galaxy, M81, in the last 100 million years is thought to be the cause of the starburst activity.
Date	14 January 2000 (upload date)
Source	M82: Chandra Images Seething Cauldron of Starburst Galaxy
Author	NASA/CXC/SAO/PSU/CMU
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Also Known As InfoField	Cigar Galaxy
Category InfoField	Normal Galaxies & Starburst Galaxies, Black Holes
Color Code InfoField	Hot pink dots - the rest is intensity
Constellation InfoField	Ursa Major
Coordinates (J2000) InfoField	RA 09h 55m 50.70s
Distance Estimate InfoField	12 million light years
Observation Date(s) InfoField	September 20, 1999
Observation ID(s) InfoField	361, 1302
Observation Time InfoField	13 hours
Scale InfoField	Image is 5 arcmin across.
Instruments InfoField	ACIS

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Credit/Provider	NASA/CXC/SAO/PSU/CMU
Headline	The nearest starburst galaxy at a distance of 11 million light years from Earth.
Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Short title	Chandra Images Seething Cauldron of Starburst Galaxy
Image title	M82, at a distance of 11 million light years from Earth, is the nearest starburst galaxy. Massive stars are forming and expiring in M82 at a rate ten times higher than in our galaxy. The bright spots in the center are supernova remnants and X-ray binaries. These are some of the brightest such objects known. The luminosity of the X-ray binaries suggests that most contain a black hole. The diffuse X-ray light in the image extends over several thousand light years, and is caused by multimillion degree gas flowing out of M82. A close encounter with a large galaxy, M81, in the last 100 million years is thought to be the cause of the starburst activity.
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	14 January 2000
Exif version	2.21
Image width	225 px
Image height	225 px
Color space	sRGB
Width	225 px
Height	225 px
Pixel composition	RGB
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Bits per component	8 8 8
Date metadata was last modified	11:22, 14 December 2010
Keywords	M82
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
IIM version	2

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