The blast was discovered in the Messier 82 galaxy which is 12 million light ... screen grabs from their telescopes and found earlier images, reports The Register. The stunning images captured ...

Astronomers and telescopes around the world have observed a supernova in Messier 82, known as the Cigar Galaxy. The death of the white dwarf is the closest supernova to Earth since 1987.

The "Cigar Galaxy" Messier 82 is ablaze with intense star formation ... to get right to the heart of star birth. The NIRCam images collected by Bolatto and colleagues also benefited from a ...

A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Messier 82, or M82, shows the result of star formation on overdrive. M82 is located about 12 million light years from Earth and is the nearest place to us ...

They inspected online archive images of the galaxy, and it became apparent that there was indeed a new star-like object in M 82. With clouds ... a supernova in nearby Messier 81.

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 ...