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Hubble showed a jellyfish-like galaxy “driving” in plasma

  • May 22, 2023
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photographed the jellyfish-like galaxy JW39 in the constellation Coma Veronica using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). This was reported by the observatory,

Hubble showed a jellyfish-like galaxy “driving” in plasma
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photographed the jellyfish-like galaxy JW39 in the constellation Coma Veronica using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

This was reported by the observatory, reported Ukrinform.

The galaxy is located 900 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma of Veronica and is one of several jellyfish-like galaxies that Hubble has studied in the past two years.

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team

This jellyfish-like galaxy is “driving” in the extremely hostile environment of the galaxy cluster.

Compared to their more isolated counterparts, galaxies in galaxy clusters are often distorted by the gravitational force of their larger neighbors, which can “bend” galaxies into various strange shapes.

In addition, the scorching hot plasma known as the intra-cluster medium penetrates the space between galaxies in the cluster.

Although this plasma is extremely sparse, galaxies moving through it almost feel like current-fighting swimmers, and this interaction could purge galaxies of star-forming gas.

As reported by Ukrinform, in April the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope photographed the jellyfish-like galaxy JO204 in the constellation Sextant.

Source: Ukrinform

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