The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a jellyfish-shaped galaxy more than 700 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius.
Astronomers revealed an image of the galaxy called JO206, showing a colorful star-forming disk surrounded by a faint cloud of dust.
And the “Hubble”, affiliated with the NASA and “European Space” agencies, captured a picture, transmitted by Russia Today, of the jellyfish galaxy JO206, which highlights a handful of bright stars in the foreground with diffraction ripples (diffraction or diffraction of light) intersecting against an inky black background. The galaxy should be called the Jellyfish Galaxy, due to its resemblance to the aquatic organism of the same name.
The tendrils of jellyfish galaxies are formed by the interaction between galaxies and the intracluster medium, a weak, extremely hot plasma that pervades galaxy clusters.
As galaxies move through galaxy clusters, they collide with the inner cluster medium, which removes gas from the galaxies and draws it into the long tendrils of star formation.
Jellyfish galaxies give astronomers a unique opportunity to study star formation under extreme conditions, far from the influence of the galaxy’s main disk.
Surprisingly, Hubble revealed that there were no striking differences between star formation in the disks of jellyfish galaxies and star formation in the fringes, indicating that the environment of newly formed stars has only a slight influence on their formation.
