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The Cigar Galaxy's Magnetic Field
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The Cigar Galaxy's Magnetic Field

A composite image of the Cigar Galaxy (also called M82), a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The magnetic field detected by the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus instrument (known as HAWC+) on SOFIA (the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), shown as streamlines, appears to follow the bipolar outflows (red) generated by the intense nuclear starburst. The image combines visible starlight (gray) and a tracing of hydrogen gas (red) observed from the Kitt Peak Observatory, with near-infrared and mid-infrared starlight and dust (yellow) observed by SOFIA and the Spitzer Space Telescope. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23010

Date
2019-03-05
Photographer / author
NASA/SOFIA/E. Lopez-Rodiguez; NASA/Spitzer/J. Moustakas et al.
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"The Cigar Galaxy's Magnetic Field" (2019-03-05). NASA/JPL/NASA/SOFIA/E. Lopez-Rodiguez; NASA/Spitzer/J. Moustakas et al.. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23010

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