Hubble captures galactic jellyfish with bright tendrils of star formation (photo)
"As galaxies plough through this tenuous gas, it acts like a headwind, stripping gas and dust from the galaxy and creating the trailing streamers that prominently adorn JW100," ESA officials wrote in the statement. captured JW100 edge-on, showing the galaxy's central bulge composed of stars, gas, and dust, and its bright spiral arms. Patchy blue trails can be seen extending below the galaxy, resembling tentacles of a jellyfish.
JW100 is located in the lower right of the Hubble image, surrounded by six small elliptical galaxies and a much larger elliptical galaxy, called IC 5338, which is the bright area of diffuse light near the top of the image. These galaxies all belong to the same . IC 5338, the brightest galaxy in the galaxy cluster, is classified as a cD galaxy and has two cores.
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