Bode's Galaxy & The Cigar Galaxy - Premium Photo Poster

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Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) — a pair of gravitationally bound neighbors about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M81 is a textbook spiral galaxy with elegant arms and a bright core. M82, its smaller companion, is a starburst galaxy stretched edge-on into its famous cigar shape, its center blasting out new stars at a furious rate after a close gravitational encounter with M81 millions of years ago.
This image was captured from my own telescope over multiple nights of long exposures. No AI, no stock photography — just real photons that left these galaxies 12 million years ago and finally landed on my sensor. Printed on premium photo paper to preserve the deep blacks of intergalactic space and the warm glow of both galactic cores.
Two galaxies, one frame, and a whole lot of space in between.
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Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) — a pair of gravitationally bound neighbors about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M81 is a textbook spiral galaxy with elegant arms and a bright core. M82, its smaller companion, is a starburst galaxy stretched edge-on into its famous cigar shape, its center blasting out new stars at a furious rate after a close gravitational encounter with M81 millions of years ago.
This image was captured from my own telescope over multiple nights of long exposures. No AI, no stock photography — just real photons that left these galaxies 12 million years ago and finally landed on my sensor. Printed on premium photo paper to preserve the deep blacks of intergalactic space and the warm glow of both galactic cores.
Two galaxies, one frame, and a whole lot of space in between.