NASA’s Hubble Telescope Snaps a ‘Cosmic Sea Creature’ 700 Million Light Years Away

Launched in 1990, this groundbreaking telescope graced our eyes for many years and is now once again using its powerful instruments. Yes, we are talking about Hubble.

NASA’s famous telescope recorded the jellyfish galaxy JO206 as it wanders across the cosmos in the constellation Aquarius, some 700 million light-years away from Earth.

The picture shows how jellyfish galaxies mimic their oceanic namesakes. In the lower right corner, you can see long “tentacles” of bright star formation that resemble a jellyfish’s tentacles and track across the galaxy’s main disk.

Simply put, the long arms of the Milky Way are like extended tentacles that reach out and follow the part of the Milky Way where new stars are forming.

An ‘intra-cluster medium’ separates the galaxies in the galaxy clusters. The plasma has been heated to a high temperature. The plasma expels gas from the galaxies as they traverse this intra-cluster medium, forming the long ‘tentacles’ we can see in the picture.

Because of the jellyfish tendrils, astronomers can probe star formation in harsh environments away from the effects of the galaxy’s main disk.

The space agency published a photo of a different jellyfish galaxy JW39, also taken by Hubble last month. Those details are given below:

See also: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures Jellyfish Galaxy 900 million light-years away

Cover Image: NASA

Launched in 1990, this groundbreaking telescope graced our eyes for many years and is now once again using its powerful instruments. Yes, we are talking about Hubble.

NASA’s famous telescope recorded the jellyfish galaxy JO206 as it wanders across the cosmos in the constellation Aquarius, some 700 million light-years away from Earth.

The picture shows how jellyfish galaxies mimic their oceanic namesakes. In the lower right corner, you can see long “tentacles” of bright star formation that resemble a jellyfish’s tentacles and track across the galaxy’s main disk.

Simply put, the long arms of the Milky Way are like extended tentacles that reach out and follow the part of the Milky Way where new stars are forming.

An ‘intra-cluster medium’ separates the galaxies in the galaxy clusters. The plasma has been heated to a high temperature. The plasma expels gas from the galaxies as they traverse this intra-cluster medium, forming the long ‘tentacles’ we can see in the picture.

Because of the jellyfish tendrils, astronomers can probe star formation in harsh environments away from the effects of the galaxy’s main disk.

The space agency published a photo of a different jellyfish galaxy JW39, also taken by Hubble last month. Those details are given below:

See also: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures Jellyfish Galaxy 900 million light-years away

Cover Image: NASA