The Cartwheel Galaxy
Depicts: The Cartwheel Galaxy, IRAS 00352-3359
Copyright: Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA
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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.
Last Update: 1 September 2019