Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Neighborhood of the Spiral Galaxy M81

Neighborhood of the Spiral Galaxy M81

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors. The team obtained deep and super wide-field images of the galaxies and discovered that the spatial distribution of the young stars around these galaxies follows very closely that of their distribution of neutral hydrogen.
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