• Question: What is a jellyfish galaxy?

    Asked by ashtm001 to Sam on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 24 Jun 2013:


      It’s a galaxy whose gas is being ripped out as it passes through the hot, low-density gas inside a galaxy cluster:

      The streams of gas being pulled out make it look a little bit like a jellyfish.

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