{"id":186770,"date":"2024-04-04T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/unveiling-the-starburst-james-webbs-survey-of-messier-82"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:25:51","slug":"unveiling-the-starburst-james-webbs-survey-of-messier-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/unveiling-the-starburst-james-webbs-survey-of-messier-82","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling the Starburst: James Webb\u2019s Survey of Messier 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unveiling-the-starburst-james-webbs-survey-of-messier-82.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/explore-the-night-sky\/hubble-messier-catalog\/messier-82\/\">Messier 82 Galaxy<\/a> (commonly known as M82) is a starburst galaxy located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth, with starburst meaning it is experiencing an unusually high rate of star formation, with approximately 10 times the number of stars being formed compared to our own Milky Way Galaxy. While M82 has a long history of being studied, specifically by NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.16648\">recent study<\/a> published in <em>The Astrophysical Journal<\/em> uses data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1040026\">conduct more in-depth observations of M82<\/a> and its starburst characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Images of Messier 82 obtained by NASA\u2019s Hubble in 2006 (left) versus recent images obtained by NASA\u2019s JWST (right). (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Bolatto (University of Maryland))<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cM82 has garnered a variety of observations over the years because it can be considered as the prototypical starburst galaxy,\u201d said Dr. Alberto Bolatto, who is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland and lead author of the study. \u201cBoth NASA\u2019s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have observed this target. With Webb\u2019s size and resolution, we can look at this star-forming galaxy and see all of this beautiful, new detail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Messier 82 Galaxy (commonly known as M82) is a starburst galaxy located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth, with starburst meaning it is experiencing an unusually high rate of star formation, with approximately 10 times the number of stars being formed compared to our own Milky Way Galaxy. While M82 has a long history [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}