Brightly lit with new and blue massive stars, star formation appears so rampant in NGC 1313 that it has been labeled a starburstgalaxy.
伴随年轻、蓝色的大质量恒星发出的强光,NGC 1313因其中的恒星形成区蔓生而被归为星暴星系。
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In this archival image, released on the 16th anniversary of, and taken by, the Hubble Space Telescope, we see the sharpest wide-angle view ever taken of the starburstgalaxy Messier 82.
"We are seeing this galaxy after the major starburst has occurred," explained team member Joseph Silk of the University of Oxford. "the most massive stars are already gone."