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what's up it's springtime and we have

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some galaxies to look at this month I'm

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Jane Houston Jones with NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California even through binoculars you

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can see other galaxies just look to the

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north on one side or the other of the

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Big Dipper near the Dipper part are a

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pair of galaxies called m81 and m82

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these two galaxies are very close

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together and they can both be seen in

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the same binocular or telescope view m81

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is a spiral galaxy and it's much bigger

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than the other galaxies through a

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telescope you can see the spiral arms of

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this galaxy and in binoculars what

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you'll see is an oval smudge m82 on the

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other hand will look in binoculars like

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a little straight line in fact its

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nickname is the cigar galaxy but through

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a telescope you'll actually see little

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knots of gas and stars these galaxies

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were also imaged by the Spitzer Space

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Telescope Spitzer was looking past the

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dust at the stars to learn more about

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their composition what material is being

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blown off of stars and the distribution

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of stars in the spiral arms through a

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telescope or through binoculars you

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won't see the color but you will see a

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beautiful shape

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on the other side of the Big Dipper near

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the handle is m51 the Whirlpool Galaxy

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the Whirlpool Galaxy is actually two

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galaxies that look to be connected but

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they're not this galaxy has also been

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studied by the Spitzer Space Telescope

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through binoculars m51 will look like a

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circular smudge in a telescope you'll

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actually be able to see which way the

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spiral arms are spiraling in addition to

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the galaxies we can also see if both

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Saturn and Mars in the western sky this

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month it's really fun to look at Mars

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right now because the mars phoenix

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lander will land at the end of May