Jellyfish galaxy

Not to be confused with Jellyfish Nebula.

A jellyfish galaxy is a type of galaxy found in galaxy clusters. They take the appearance of jellyfish with distinctive tail of gas often with regions of starbursts along it. They are formed when a galaxy located in a galaxy cluster with a dense environment travels through it. The gas in the galaxy is stripped of in a process called ram pressure stripping.

The most distant jellyfish galaxy is currently the candidate galaxy COSMOS2020-635829.

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