A "Jellyfish" Galaxy Swims Into View of NASA's Upcoming Webb Telescope
Release date: April 17, 2019
Webb will examine clumps of newly formed stars in the galaxy's tail
As the spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 plunges into a galaxy cluster, gas is being pulled off of it as though it faced a cosmic headwind. Within that gas, stars are forming to create the appearance of giant, blue tentacle-like streamers. Astronomers, puzzled that stars could form within such tumult, plan to use Webb to study this galaxy and its stellar offspring.
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