M81, M82 & NGC3077

I have some more editing to do on this, but I couldn’t wait to share these beautiful galaxies. The spiral galaxy in the center is M81, and is nearly 12 million light years away in the Big Dipper.

The one to the right is known as the Cigar Galaxy or M82, a starburst galaxy that churns out new stars at a rate thirty times what our home galaxy, The Milky Way does.

At the top of the frame you can see NGC 3077, a very small emission line galaxy, about 13 million light years from us.

You can also see a small few dots in a line near the bottom left quadrant, I believe they are Starlink Satelites.