Open in 3DWhat it is
Forming stars ten times faster than the Milky Way since a close pass by M81; the red plumes are gas blown out of it by supernovae.
The picture hangs at that distance facing Earth, as large as it is on the sky; how deep the object is cannot be seen, so it is flat.
The picture
- Taken by
- NOIRLab
- Picture spans
- about 63,000 ly
- From the Sun
- 11.4 million light-years
- RA / Dec
- 148.75° / 69.65°
Far beyond
- Whirlpool GalaxySpiral galaxy, M51 · 28 million light-years3D
Picture: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/George Hatfield and Flynn Haase
- Sombrero GalaxySpiral galaxy, M104 · 31.1 million light-years3D
- Centaurus AElliptical galaxy with a dust lane, NGC 5128 · 12.4 million light-years3D
- Webb's First Deep FieldGalaxy cluster SMACS 0723 · 5.1 billion light-years3D
- M87*, imagedEvent Horizon Telescope, 2019 · 53.5 million light-years3D
- Stephan's QuintetGroup of galaxies · 290 million light-years3D
- Pinwheel GalaxySpiral galaxy, M101 · 21 million light-years3D
- Messier 87Giant elliptical galaxy · 53.5 million light-years3D
Picture: Digitized Sky Survey 2 (STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, UKSTU/AAO), via CDS hips2fits