“NASA’s Hubble Telescope Discovers Unique Jellyfish Galaxy: JO175”

KOMPAS.com – A unique galaxy caught by the Hubble Space Telescope belonging to the United States national space agency, NASA.

The Jellyfish Galaxy, thus the name attached to the JO175 galaxy which is located more than 650 million light years from Earth.

The Hubble Telescope discovered this jellyfish galaxy in the constellation Telescopium. The appearance of this galaxy was captured very clearly by the Hubble telescope camera, Wide Field Camera 3.

The unique name of the jellyfish galaxy

So, why is it named the jellyfish galaxy?

Images of the jellyfish galaxy captured by the Hubble telescope were also released by NASA and ESA, the European space agency, recently.

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As reported by Phys, Tuesday (9/5/2023), the jellyfish galaxy gets its name from the tendrils of star-forming gas and dust that follow behind it, which look like jellyfish tentacles.

Therefore, astronomers dub the galaxy JO175 as the jellyfish galaxy.

These bright, glowing tendrils contain star-forming clumps and give this unique galaxy a very striking appearance.

The galaxy JO175 makes their home in a galaxy cluster. The weak superheated plasma pressure penetrates the galaxy cluster and is what attracts the characteristic tendrils of the jellyfish galaxy.

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Recently, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has completed deeper observations of the jellyfish galaxy cluster.

Especially in-depth observations of the star-forming clumps of gas and dust that exist in the tendrils of these unique galaxies.

By studying the origin and life of the stars in the JO175 galaxy cluster, astronomers hope to better understand the basic processes of star formation elsewhere in the universe.

Interestingly, in the study, astronomers showed that star formation in a disk galaxy is similar to star formation under extreme conditions found in the tendrils of jellyfish galaxies.

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