Now You See a Tail, Now You Dont
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer found a tail behind a galaxy called IC 3418. This star-studded tail was created as the galaxy plunged into gas in a family of galaxies known as the Virgo cluster.
- Date
- 2010-06-17
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Now You See a Tail, Now You Dont" (2010-06-17). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA13192Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15830.
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