Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week sees galactic gas making a getaway ☁️💨 🔴 The spiral galaxy NGC 4388 is located about 60 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster. From Earth, it appears tilted at an extreme angle, giving us a nearly edge-on view of the galaxy. 🔴 This reveals a glowing gas cloud billowing from the galaxy’s disc. This is likely to be caused by the hot wisps of gas in the space between galaxies in the Virgo cluster. These whisk gas away from NGC 4388’s disc, causing it to trail behind the galaxy. 🔴 But what causes the gas to glow? 💡 Researchers suspect that this might be due to shock waves and radiation from the scorching-hot disc surrounding the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 europeanspaceagency / hubbleesa & NASA , S. Veilleux, J. Wang, J. Greene #ESA #Hubble