Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope!

ABOUT THIS IMAGE:

The central "inner-city" portion of the galaxy showing the combined light of countless stars and revealing numerous star-forming clumps, dark red clouds of gas and dust obscuring the light from the galaxy's core, and an overall field of fainter resolved and unresolved red (cooler) and blue (hotter) stars.

Object Names: M82, NGC 3034

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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The above image is part of a montage:

Montage Image: Active Galaxy M82 Details Image Type: Astronomical PRC2006-14b

Disk of M82 Image Type: Astronomical

Hydrogen Plume in M82 Image Type: Astronomical

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