One of the most detailed views ever of the core of M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy. Unusually bright and relatively close to Earth, previous Hubble Space Telescope images show a galaxy ablaze with stars. Yet this image looks quite unlike them, and is dominated instead by glowing gas and dust, with the stars almost invisible. Why such a difference? Read more here: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1201a/
