This clear image of Messier 82 (M82) shows its glowing clouds and gas plumes. Stars in this galaxy form ten times faster than in the Milky Way. This NASA/ESA Hubble image shows the edge-on disk galaxy ...

The reason for this much greater activity lies in M82's gravitational interactions with a neighbouring galaxy known as M81. The fantastic image here is the sharpest wide-angle view of M82 ever ...