Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UAH/M.Sun et al; Optical: NASA, ESA, & the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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Galaxy ESO 137-001
Some 220 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe (The southern triangle) and located in Norma Cluster, a bizarre looking spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 is speeding away at a staggering speed of 4.5 million miles/hour! The rush leave behind a long trail of super hot gas nearly 260,000 light-years long. The heated gas at 82 million degrees celsius shine brightly in X-ray and colored purple in this image. The galaxy loss significant amount of gas and dust due to this phenomenon astronomers called “ram pressure stripping”. It will make stars formation difficult for ESO 137-001 in the future. However, evidents show that young stars are forming in the tails.