The extremely rare phenomenon occurred 12 million light years away in the Messier 82 galaxy and is the 'closest to Earth since the 1800s' News Chris Bradley 11:38, 25 Jan 2014 Updated 13:09, 25 ...

At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of students -- Ben Cooke, Tony Brown, Matthew Wilde and Guy Pollack -- assisted by Dr Steve Fossey, spotted the exploding star in nearby galaxy Messier 82 (the ...

The supernova occurred in Messier 82, located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth, the closest supernova since SN 1987A in 1987. SN 1987A was a Type II-P supernova, in the Tarantula ...

This new image of galaxy Messier 82, acquired by astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, is said to be “the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.” ...

This superimposed spectrum highlights the molecular gas being emitted from the galaxy Messier 82, or M82. Different isotopes of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and methylacetylene ...

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 ...

The galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is seen here in two different lights. A visible-light view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is at left, and an X-ray view from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is ...

The image is composed of several different XMM-Newton observations of Messier 82, adding up to 52.5 hours of observing time in total.

The blast was discovered in the Messier 82 galaxy which is 12 million light years away, in the constellation Ursa Major. The announcement came from Russian amateur astronomers in Blagoveschensk.

At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of students -- Ben Cooke, Tony Brown, Matthew Wilde and Guy Pollack -- assisted by Dr Steve Fossey, spotted the exploding star in nearby galaxy Messier 82 (the ...

At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of students — Ben Cooke, Tom Wright, Matthew Wilde and Guy Pollack — assisted by Dr. Steve Fossey, spotted the exploding star in nearby galaxy Messier 82 ...

ESA’s spaceborne X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has carried out an exclusive observation of the galaxy Messier 82, for the ‘100 Hours of Astronomy’ cornerstone project for the International ...