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Ursa Major Constellation and Galaxy M82 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Ursa Major Constellation and Galaxy M82

April 24, 2006 · NASA

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Galaxy M82 is located about 12 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Ursa Major is seen in this ground-based image taken by Akira Fujii.