Pan of Spiral Galaxy IC 3225: Celestial 'Cannonball' in Virgo | Hubble
IC 3225 is not so close to the cluster core right now. Nevertheless, astronomers have deduced that it has undergone this ram pressure stripping in the past. The galaxy looks as though it has been impacted by this. It is compressed on one side and there has been noticeably more star formation on this leading edge, while the opposite end is stretched out of shape. Being in such a crowded field, a close call with another galaxy could also have tugged on IC 3225 and created this shape. The sight of this distorted galaxy is a reminder of the forces at work on astronomical scales. It can move and reshape entire galaxies,
Image Description: A spiral galaxy. Its disc glows visibly from the center, and has faint dust threaded through it. A spiral arm curves around the left edge of the disc and is noticeably more dense with bright blue spots, where there are hot and new stars, than the rest. Opposite, the disc stretches out into a short tail where it covers a distant background galaxy. Around it, other distant galaxies and nearby stars are visible.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun
Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: Oct. 21, 2024
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