Hubble highlights two galaxies that are losing it
October 13th, 2009
NGC 4522 and NGC 4402 30 September 2009 Newly released images, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope before the recent Servicing Mission, highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process known as ‘ram pressure stripping’, which can result in peculiar-looking galaxies. An extremely hot X-ray-emitting gas known as [...]