Friday, 25 October 2024

Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball


The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disk behind it. via NASA https://ift.tt/E2orZUW
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