NASA's Hubble Telescope captures an image of Galaxy NGC 2276 located 120 Million Light- Years Away
The Galaxy NGC 2276 is located in the constellation Cepheus which is 120 Million Light-Years away from Earth.
An another discovery has been made by NASA's 31 years old Hubble Space Telescope. Telescope has found a "lopsided" spiral galaxy that has been deformed by the gravitational tug of another nearby galaxy.
NGC 2276 is gravitationally tugging on its disk of blue stars, pulling the stars on one side of the galaxy outward to distort the galaxy's normal fried egg appearance, which is locate in the northern constellation Cepheus which is about 120 Million Light- Years away from the Earth.
This spiral galaxy is like a sort of "tug-of-war". A neighbouring galaxy is gravitationally tugging on its disk of blue stars, pulling the stars on one side of the galaxy outward, this was captioned by NASA on its post on instagram.
They also traced out a lane of intense star formation. This may have triggered by a prior collision with a dwarf galaxy. It could also be due to NGC 2276 plowing into the superheated gas that lies among galaxies in galaxy clusters. This would compress the gas into stars, and trigger a firestorm of starbirth.
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