# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BP2xSJElhw9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736210-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/ed2bc307f1.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-01-29T16:56:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

This beautiful galaxy, is difficult to classify. While its physical properties - such as mass, size and rotational velocity - indicate it to be a spiral galaxy, its appearance looks more like a comet with its dense, luminous "head" and dimmer "tail" trailing off. Features more fitting with a dwarf irregular galaxy. New stars are springing into life within the bright, colorful 'head' of this galaxy and ejecting streams of high-speed particles as they do so, which flood outwards to join the wider galactic wind. While this galaxy would be a perfect candidate to study such winds, recent studies did not find any galactic winds in it.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

#nasa #hst #hubble #galaxy #nasabeyond #astronomy #science

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astronomy, nasabeyond, science, nasa, hubble, galaxy, hst

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