M82 in 60 Seconds - In
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Narrator (Megan Watzke, CXC): When seen in visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope,
M82 looks like an ordinary spiral galaxy. However, looking at it through the Spitzer
Space Telescope in infrared radiation, we see a startlingly different picture with material
being blasted from the galaxy’s disk. X-ray data from Chandra reveal scorching gas that
has been heated to millions of degrees by this violent outburst. The composite image
of all of these different data reveals the true nature of this galaxy.
