The Cartwheel Galaxy
Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic pictures of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding through the heart of the galaxy at nearly 700, 000 mph.
Credit:Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas ( Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA
About the Image
NASA press release
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| Id: | opo9636a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 26 November 1996, 06:00 |
| Size: | 800 x 575 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cartwheel Galaxy |
| Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Lenticular |
| Distance: | 400 million light years |
| Category: | Galaxies |
