Galaxy Leaves News Stars Behind in its Death Plunge

Quick, look at the picture with this story. Are you looking at a comet? Nope, that’s an entire galaxy. But the process is similar. In this case, an entire galaxy is plunging into a galaxy cluster. The interstellar winds are tearing away at its structure, shedding material, and trailing stars behind into a trail 200,000 light-years long. But it’s actually a region of creation, not destruction, as millions of new stars are forming behind the galaxy.
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