Space Daily June 29, 2026 • 03:06

The James Webb telescope picked out 16.5 million individual stars in the Cigar Galaxy — a neighbor forming stars ten times faster than the Milky Way, in a burst estimated to last only a few hundred million years - Space Daily

Webb's infrared camera pierced the dust of Messier 82 and resolved 16.5 million stars, a fraction of the galaxy's true population, in a starburst astronomers think a galaxy merger set off and that cannot keep burning for long.

About 12 million light-years from Earth, a nearby galaxy named Messier 82 is building stars at a furious pace, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now picked out 16.5 million of them one by one… [+7155 chars]

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The James Webb telescope picked out 16.5 million individual stars in the Cigar Galaxy — a neighbor forming stars ten times faster than the Milky Way, in a burst estimated to last only a few hundred million years - Space Daily

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