Welcome to the galaxy JW100.
Located about 800 million light-years away, it resides in the constellation Pegasus.
Seen at the lower right of this #HubbleFriday image, JW100 is known as a jellyfish galaxy because of its "tendrils" of star-forming gas: https://go.nasa.gov/40fgqHB
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Located about 800 million light-years away, it resides in the constellation Pegasus.
Seen at the lower right of this #HubbleFriday image, JW100 is known as a jellyfish galaxy because of its "tendrils" of star-forming gas: https://go.nasa.gov/40fgqHB
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Hubble Snaps a Galactic Jellyfish
Streams of star-forming gas dripping from the disk of galaxy JW100 are formed by a process called ram pressure stripping.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)