NGC 4522 - A galaxy affected by ram pressure stripping

Video about NGC 4522, a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo, 60 million light-years away from Earth (Virgo Cluster). According to astronomers of NASA & ESA these images of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) this galaxy is affected by a process known as "ram pressure stripping". The nearby galaxies emit extremely hot gas in the X-ray spectrum, filling the intra-cluster medium lurks between galaxies within clusters. The galaxies then move through this intra-cluster medium full of strong winds that rip through these galaxies distorting their shape and even halting star formation. CREDITS: NASA, ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble). All astro-images released by ESA / Hubble under an Attribution-Unported 3.0 Creative Commons License. Music by BUTTERFLY TEA, "Love Theme", from the album "Butterfly Reloaded"; released under an Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike, 3.0 Creative Commons License.

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• astronomy
• Virgo
• Cluster
• constellation
• NGC4522
• ram
• pressure
• stripping
• Hubble
• ESA
• NASA
• spiral
• galaxy