It continues to work alongside other telescopes, like its new partner in space, the James Webb Space Telescope.
Hubble is a 33-year-old heritage observatory. NASA says this “suggests the environment of newly formed stars has only a minor influence on their formation.”
When astronomers looked at Hubble’s observations, they saw “no striking differences” between star formation inside the galaxies themselves versus the tentacles. “The tentacles of jellyfish galaxies give astronomers a unique opportunity to study star formation under extreme conditions, far from the influence of the galaxy’s main disk,” they add. As galaxies move through galaxy clusters, they ram into the intracluster medium, which strips gas from the galaxies and draws it into the long tendrils of star formation,” space agency officials write in the image description. “The tendrils of jellyfish galaxies are formed by the interaction between galaxies and the intra-cluster medium, a tenuous superheated plasma that pervades galaxy clusters. As a jellyfish galaxy moves through the cluster, it drags against the choppy plasma sea. The tentacles are a product of this wild environment. NASA, which operates Hubble with ESA, shared the description on its website on Friday. The European Space Agency (ESA) describes the scenario playing out in the Hubble image in a new statement. This charged material was thought to be a hazard to stellar formation, which would be unfortunate since it is pervasive in the space between galaxies of a group, called a cluster. Without the protection of the galaxy itself, the gas and dust in these tentacles are at the mercy of the fourth state of matter, plasma. The galaxy is located 700 million light-years from Earth.
Hubble space telescope images milky way full#
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the “jellyfish” galaxy JO206 and three interloper stars much closer to Earth. This Hubble Space Telescope image of a sparkling jewel box full of stars captures the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
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