Cigar Galaxy - Messier 82 Medium:Fine Art • Saturn V

• Saturn V

and form awkward peaks that jut back into the bubble's punishing environment

but if you are in a very dark place in the mountains and look more widely into the night sky

Winters in the mountains of the Black Forest can be very cold and wintry

Pano of 73 shots

Cigar Galaxy - Messier 82 Medium:Fine Art • Saturn VThis mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy is the sharpest wide angle view ever obtained of M82. The galaxy is remarkable for its bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds, and fiery looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out of its central regions. Located 12 million light years away, M82 appears high in the northern spring sky in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is also called the "Cigar Galaxy"