M81 Bode Galaxy and M82 Cigar Galaxy are tidally locked to each other and interact with each other to create galaxies with rich star formations. M81, the Bode Galaxy is the spiral galaxy, which faces us side on, as is found in the constellation Ursa Major. It is in the local group of galaxies and is of close proximity to Earth with a large size and active galactic nucleus, which harbours a 70 million M supermassive black hole. It is located 11.6 million light-years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 6.9. Through a pair of binoculars, the galaxy appears as a faint patch of light in the same field of view as M82. A small telescope will resolve M81’s core. The galaxy is best observed during April.   The galaxy’s spiral arms, which wind all the way down into its nucleus, are made up of young, bluish, hot stars formed in the past few million years. They also host a population of stars formed in an episode of star formation that started about 600 million years ago. Ultravio...